+POS Umpire Shoes
 

I have a pair of +POS Shoes on Ebay for $100 shipped. Heres the link.

http://cgi.ebay.com/POS-UMPIRE-SHOES...QQcmdZViewItem

Put an extra insole in those puppies and they won't be too big for you anymore!

Wait, so are you saying that this new +POS shoe (the eBay listing says that they are new) does not ship with an insole? I find that hard to believe!

Or did you pull out the insoles of the +POS shoes to put them in the Honig's plate shoes that you were trying to sell here and on eBay a couple of months ago? Or maybe you bought them dirt cheap as blemished/seconds, and the problem was that they did not have insoles in them? And now you are trying to get top dollar on eBay for them?

I don't really know what you are up to, but it has an odor to it. Earlier posts showed that you bought the Honig's shoes secondhand (allegedly new, but you were not the original customer) and tried to return them to Honig's, and, when that did not work out to your satisfaction, you then apparently tried to sell them on eBay.

Why don't you just try to make your quick buck from some sucker on eBay and cease the soliciting on this forum?

im not sure if you clicked the link...but hes selling the shoes to some sucker on eBay and soliciting suckers on this forum to check that out at the same time.
is there something wrong with letting people know you have shoes for sale, or are suckers just supposed to know on their own? plate shoes seem like a wanted solicitation around here.

The picture shows three shoes......does the free shipping cover the third shoe, or does it cost extra to ship it?

A third shoe? Is that for people with a third leg? :confused: :D

Jeez you guys.

He bought a pair of shoes on eBay, and they didn't fit. Now he's selling them. He's giving us a heads-up, in case we need a pair. It's a fair deal if you need 11's. If you do a little homework, and not pop off so quick, you'll see he's just breaking even on the deal.

I hope the snow melts soon you for penguins out there.

Thanks for SOME people understanding. I dont know why people have to respond to be critical. I dont care if you have had a bad day or what your problems are, I havent said anything bad to any of you, so why am I being attacked because I want to sell some shoes. And Kyle, I will actually be losing some money, I bought these for $99 I believe, and Ebay and Paypal will most likley take $5 or $6 for the fees. I am going to sell these and then go to +POS, and spend the $140 or whatever it is to buy some 10 1/2'.s And dont act like you people would sell or return shoes dont fit.

Because if we allow this crap, then our site designed to help us improve as umpires becomes a swap meet. No one here likes solicitation.

Speak for yourself.

Hey, when someone had a link through Amazon for those $30 WV protectors, I hope you didn't blow that off too. I got a couple, and so did lots of folks here.

Don't buy from +POS on this one - bought mine from btlofficialsgear.com -spent $60 less than +POS and got them in a day. Don't know where you live, but even a couple of days extra probably won't matter. I got the spot bilt one's

Thanks, but no thanks. I would say 60-70% of the people in my association wear +POS. I love the look, and the feel of the shoes, and the $140 I have heard is a bargain since the shoes last so long.

1. These shoes ship with insoles, not from +POS, but insoles from Dr. Scholl's. I believe they are better anyway.

2. These shoes are a little blemished. I wouldnt have even known about the "blemishes" if the seller hadnt told me a bout them. I believe there are 1 or 2 minor marks, and if someone was obsessive about it they could polish it.

3. I paid just under $100 for these shoes, so I did not get them dirt cheap. I am trying to get my money back on these, which I won't do because of the Ebay and Paypal fees. Then I will go to +POS and buy the shoes direct

4. Excuse me for trying to save a little bit of money. By the way, the people that bought my Honig's shoes were more than happy to buy them for about $85, and I didn't get my money back on those either.

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

Youre too young to be using this language.

Maybe it's because of your posting pattern and things that don't seem "quite right" about the ebay and other ads.

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.

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.

Ouch! ka-BOOM! :cool: :D

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.

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$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.

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

What is machine Pitch?
 

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? :cool:

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.

I don't know why he needs plate shoes. Wiffle balls don't hurt.

Do you wear plate shoes when you load the pitching machine?

Posts #27, 28, and 29 win the prize for the funniest three consecutive posts ever.....

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think that many games would make me hate baseball after a while.

When I first started last year, I hated it. That was until I got my first $300 pay check.

Yes, we know; you've told us. You're just in it for the money. We're happy for you.

yawn


...as long as you don't call yourself an umpire.

I definately call myself an umpire.

There's one. Paris Hilton calls herself a great singer, also.

And Sanjaya Malakar calls himself a singer. What's your point?

aaaahhh! :D


ok, either one will do. I'm rather shocked that Muxley doesn't wear old ratty tennis shoes to bank even more loot, but I guess the 'real' shoes will wow the young impressionables.

Ha ha ha ha ...........:D

Best thing to ever hit that stupid show. Hope he wins the whole thing.

Melinda Doolittle is infinitely more talented than Sanjaya could ever hope to be.

Q. How many legs does a dog have if you call its tail a leg?
A. Four. Calling its tail a leg doesn't make it one.




Yeah, but I might watch her videos.

Lots of people already have! :D

I had one pair of +POS and hated them. they destroyed my feet and i wasn't even that busy that particular season. now i have the GD patent leather high tops...they are heavier than heavy...but they don't dominate my feet like those dang +POS did...