+POS Umpire Shoes

[BigTex]

Originally Posted by uxley11

Thanks for SOME people understanding. I dont know why people have to respond to be critical.

Originally Posted by uxley11

5. Talk when you know what the hell is going on.

I just reviewed your previous posts. I see a whole bunch of crap about equipment, what to get, how do you like this or that.....no posts about rules or actually working a game. I found one that said you did 85 games last year and that you were just starting out. Then I found a post where you said you work pitching machine games. Further research shows that your longest game was 1:45 (a lot of us around here have had INNINGS longer than that).

I think you should work on getting some dust on your plate shoes, not selling them.

[uxley11]

I think I will say whatever the HELL I want mrm.

I work any game that I can. And some times those include machine pitch games. I have said in recent posts, I am there for the money. $30-$45 for youth leagues is pretty damn good, so you can tell me how I am not a 'real' umpire, but when you say that I will just be counting the 6 or 7 thousand dollars I make in a summer.

How can I get dirt on shoes that I can't even walk in?

You can look at my previous posts all you want, I think you have no life and way to much time on your hands.

[BigTex]

Please show me where exactly I said that you were not a real umpire. I was merely trying to send a message about the pecking order. I certainly commend you for trying to make money, and maybe you will have enough saved after this summer to finally buy that moped.

[kylejt]

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[GarthB]

Originally Posted by uxley11

I think I will say whatever the HELL I want mrm.

I work any game that I can. And some times those include machine pitch games. I have said in recent posts, I am there for the money. $30-$45 for youth leagues is pretty damn good, so you can tell me how I am not a 'real' umpire, but when you say that I will just be counting the 6 or 7 thousand dollars I make in a summer.

$45 for working machine pitch baseball doesn't make you an umpire; it makes you a thief.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by GarthB

$45 for working machine pitch baseball doesn't make you an umpire; it makes you a thief.

I lived in New Orleans for a year and they insisted on 2-man for machine pitch -- one umpire to load the machine, the other to call plays at first and second.

These were freaking brutal games to "work."

The New Balance plate shoes are the best I've owned. My +POS shoes lasted forever, but wearing them was like having a brick formed around your foot.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by Rich Fronheiser

I lived in New Orleans for a year and they insisted on 2-man for machine pitch -- one umpire to load the machine, the other to call plays at first and second.

These were freaking brutal games to "work."

The New Balance plate shoes are the best I've owned. My +POS shoes lasted forever, but wearing them was like having a brick formed around your foot.

I'll bet you wore a mask when you picked up your check.

[jkumpire]

They play this at a batting cage, or what?

Is it little kids' ball?

After some of the HS ptiching I've seen in the last couple of years, is FED thinking about allowing a team to put a Jugs machine on the mound for some games?

[LMan]

Originally Posted by GarthB

$45 for working machine pitch baseball doesn't make you an umpire; it makes you a thief.

At least he's honest about his avarice, its almost preferable to some of the 'its for the kidz' treacle we see so often.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by LMan

At least he's honest about his avarice, its almost preferable to some of the 'its for the kidz' treacle we see so often.

I have no problem with people umpiring for the money. Its people who think that getting money makes them an umpire that I find strange.

[Mountaineer]

Been reading this and had to chime in - I can't believe no one else picked up on this.

Originally Posted by uxley11

$30-$45 for youth leagues is pretty damn good, so you can tell me how I am not a 'real' umpire, but when you say that I will just be counting the 6 or 7 thousand dollars I make in a summer.

$7,000 IN A SUMMER????? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?

You'd have to work about 155 games in the summer at $45 per game (and some you say pays $30) in order to make $7,000. According to someone else's research you said you only worked 85 games in the summer. If you got paid $45 for each of those games that would be less than $4,000. Of course I don't think you work 85 games in a summer since there's only about 100 days (give or take) in the summer months. I cannot believe you work almost every single night - but maybe. I do NOT believe you make $6-7,000 umpiring either. I work two sports, basketball and softball, and I don't make that much in a year working those two sports and I work more than I want to . . .

Originally Posted by Mountaineer

Been reading this and had to chime in - I can't believe no one else picked up on this.



$7,000 IN A SUMMER????? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?

You'd have to work about 155 games in the summer at $45 per game (and some you say pays $30) in order to make $7,000. According to someone else's research you said you only worked 85 games in the summer. If you got paid $45 for each of those games that would be less than $4,000. Of course I don't think you work 85 games in a summer since there's only about 100 days (give or take) in the summer months. I cannot believe you work almost every single night - but maybe. I do NOT believe you make $6-7,000 umpiring either. I work two sports, basketball and softball, and I don't make that much in a year working those two sports and I work more than I want to . . .

While I certainly don't condone all of his bs, making $6 or $7 grand in a season is possible. If you did pony, colt, HS, legion, etc, it's possible to do 50 games a month - @ $50 a pop, $2,500 a month x 4 months = $10K. Yeah you'd have to work every day two a night during the week and 3 or 4 on both Saturday and Sunday, but it is possible, although by that time you might not be able to stand up anymore. I only worked about 40 games last year and made just under two grand.

[uxley11]

I will work about 15 games this month at $45 a pop. $675. In May I will work 2 games a week day every day for $30 a pop. And I will work a minimum of 6 on the weekends. $480 a week. June and July I will work 6 weeks. So $480 times 10=$4800. So by the 2nd week of June I will have made $5475. So $5475 for about 3 months of work. And it can only go higher than that because I will be mixing in some $45 games because a major travel tournament comes in, so it could be $6000 very easily, I just won't count those games yet, since I dont have my schedule for the tourney.

Now in the fall we are talking about 30 games. So 30 times 30 = $900. $5475 +900= $6375. But we could be talking around $7,000 depending on how many extra travel games I get.

So yes, about 6 thousand in a summer. Have anything else to say Mountaineer?

It is very easy as well. I only go to school for about 4 hours a day, so I have 5 hours of my own times before I even see a baseball field during the day I work. Also, the $30 games, the time limit is an hour and 45 minutes, maximum. What a good gig for an 18 year old to be.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by uxley11

I will work about 15 games this month at $45 a pop. $675. In May I will work 2 games a week day every day for $30 a pop. And I will work a minimum of 6 on the weekends. $480 a week. June and July I will work 6 weeks. So $480 times 10=$4800. So by the 2nd week of June I will have made $5475. So $5475 for about 3 months of work. And it can only go higher than that because I will be mixing in some $45 games because a major travel tournament comes in, so it could be $6000 very easily, I just won't count those games yet, since I dont have my schedule for the tourney.

Now in the fall we are talking about 30 games. So 30 times 30 = $900. $5475 +900= $6375. But we could be talking around $7,000 depending on how many extra travel games I get.

So yes, about 6 thousand in a summer. Have anything else to say Mountaineer?

I would guess he took you at your first word which was 6,000 to 7,000 in the summer, which for most of us is three months. He wasn't aware that you apparently consider the fall part of the summer.

[a1umpire]

I have already worked 62 games as of tonight this year. I don't call FED anymore but I call USSSA tournment baseball every weekend and games almost every nite rangeing from mens 30 and over league to PONY baseball of all age groups our games in USSSA from 32.50 for 12yrs. and under to 40.00 for 16-18yr. old. So I can very well see earning well more than 6 to 7 thousand per year. Our season runs from Feb. thru Nov. weather permiting.