This sent the wrong message.

[UmpJM]

tribefan,

After I had taken a minute to digest what he said, I also found myself in agreement with JRut's essential point. Which I understood to be that the gentleman had agreed to work a HS Varsity game as part of a 2-man crew and that he was under no obligation as a result to go work a JV game solo.

However, I found his entire attitude "unseemly" for an umpire. Besides all the BS about, "just in time", "getting beat up", "cut me a check", etc., he seems to display a complete misunderstanding of the purpose and role of the umpire in the game of baseball. I think the individual in question does not understand that...

Each umpire is the representative of the league and of ... baseball, ...

In my opinion, this individual did not represent the league, baseball, or his association very well. Plus, what an a$$hole.

JM