Did he go?

[Tim C]

David I agree that REGIONAL LL umpiring has improved leaps and bounds in the past three years that I have seen these games on TV.

The World Series is still tremndously weak and that is where many of us establish our evaluation.

All our examples are anecdotal to our area (some could possibly be state wide).

I agree with Striker in one sense:

I saw a three man crew of his association work and I worked a mixed four man crew and I to would question using those umpires working even at the high school level.

They were simply poorly trained. AND, it was the first time I ever saw FED umpires in Strikers area work.

5 miles away in Portland the training is much more complete.

arto review my position concerning "some" Little League trained umpires . . . so far I have found that the best LL umpires, even those working for a dog and a coke, IN MY AREA have received their training from somewhere other than their local District Little League group.