They could have told them they had a family issue and that would have been fine with me. It is not the business of the league to know every little detail of why someone does something or not. If they want to change the schedule at the last minute and expect umpires to just fill in without consequence that is the league's problem. What they tell them is more of a moral issue than an ethical issue. Not everything needs a complete and total explanation.

Peace

Tuss, give them nowhere to go. I'd have probably said the MAIN reason for not doing the game an hour later is that I have someplace I have to be.

This kid of mixup happens regularly around these parts. Managers forget/neglect/willfully fail to keep the assignor/scheduler in the loop and it isn't the Umpire's responsibility to pay for that mistake. If an Official is willing and able to help then so be it. If not, then that Manager is responsible.

If there IS a shortage of Officials in your area, then the Managers should know this already and take pains to be sure to keep the right people informed just so this sort of thing is averted.

Don't know what this is about Mr. Tyler -

We chose not to discuss the gear situation, because a coach may know that all umpires should ALWAYS have their gear in the car in case of a no show, injury, etc.

And I feared if I used reason c they may just think we were lazy, which would cause more of a stir up.

And yes, I'm being truthful, why would I lie to a group of umpires abou this?

I understand reason c (i have someplace to be tonight) may have been good enough for the coaches, but it also may not have been and prompted more questions (what do you have to do? etc.) The point was that it wasn't my game that they wanted covered, which was the message we gave.

Kapeesh? (spelling?)

Capiche. From the Itailian, "Capisci."

Merci. (french)

Oui, je sais. J'ai étudié le français pendant cinq années. Bien que j'en aie oublié, je me rappelle assez pour enseigner le français I et II dans le lycée supérieur.

Stow it Flo! -- Mel from Alice.:)

Hutsay Upsay , as they say in some neighborhoods

Haha clean it out with Orbit; I prefer to use cough drops.

[QUOTE=mick]Nope, he got $78 for a single-man Varsity game.