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Old Mon Jul 25, 2016, 11:13am
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by Tru_in_Blu View Post

I'll second the notion about an umpire shortage. It also didn't help that there are 2 other ASA invitational tournaments going in in NH this same weekend, further exacerbating a difficult time of finding umps to work.
IMO, one of the largest issues in some areas. Unfortunately, people don't give a shit about the next guy or the services available.

I had absolutely no problem tell the commissioner that a tournament couldn't be covered if it were sanctioned on the same weekend as others.

Again IMO, this "schedule it and umpires will appear" mentality is part of a major problem with the game of softball.
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