Catcher Bailing Out

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Originally Posted by umpduck11

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Originally Posted by fitump56
Not uncommon. You call ball, many times late into the night, you get home later, get up and go to work. An ejection report takes time.
If it's required, you make the time, not excuses.

It's an acceptable excuse for the ump orgs I run since the reason almost all of our umps can umpire is because they get to keep their primary jobs first. I'm not asking asking an umpire who gets home at 2300 or later, to fill out our ejection report when he has to get up in less than six hours to see his family in the morning and get off to work. I'm certainly not going to have him fill out that report on work time either. What is required is that he call in to the hotline and leave a verbal message on it with some detail. This will suffice until he can make a formal, online report.

YMMV, this may be the primary job for many, especially on this forum. I see a huge amount of the posts coming during the day.