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Around here, you would not be getting assignments for games if you can't be at least 30 minutes early for them. That is considered the minimum. If one's job interferes, they get 5:00 PM youth ball games instead of HS. Or they are relegated to only working on their days off. Anyway, you don't come showing up 7 minutes before a game. And what's this about an umpire's room? I've only worked in a MLB park a couple of times, and a few nice college yards. Do you often get a dressing room? Wow, must be nice. What's wrong with hanging out in the parking lot waiting for your partner? That's SOP here in the big city. Are you afraid of something?:confused: |
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Half of the games I umpire are at one community centre that has three parks at it. I try to be in the dirty umpire's room 30 minutes before gametime. I get dressed there, and it is the responsibility of my partner to show up. If he doesn't, well I guess we don't get to go over positioning and rotations.
What I could use, as another poster mentioned, is a red book or CIBA or whatever it's called. They don't sell umpiring books in Canada, but I will be in Cooperstown and will see what they have there. I don't drive, and probably won't get insurance for a couple of years when I am older. An umpire's room is a place to store my bike. Plus why should any umpire have to hang around in the parking lot? That's not professional, you don't get any privacy, and you make yourself noticed before you even step on the field. |
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Most of us aren't fortunate to have a place to change other than a parking lot. There are some places I umpire where there's a locker room of sorts for us, but they're few and far between. Tim. |
I just got through working with a partner that I never worked with. He arrived 30 minutes before the game and announced that he had the plate. We went over coverages with no one on and men on. We went over putting the ball in play and fair and foul coverage.
Once the game began, He never put the ball in play, never followed the batter runner, never covered 3rd. I went out 3 times from the A position only to turn around to find him still at the plate. When I was "in", I had no idea if a ball hit down the line was fair or foul. Needless to say, it was one hell of a pain in the a$$ to work with this person. So to those who think that pre-game discussions are a waste, you don't know what you are talking about. Standing out there not knowing what your partner is doing or where he will be is one of the worst things that can happen. No one who thinks like this (lack of pre-game) should even umpire a LL game! |
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on a serious note, 100% of the games i have done so far in illinois have been games in which there was no dressing room. on the other hand, probably 95% of the games i did in pennsylvania were games where there was a dressing room. i umpired with professionalism in both states...im not sure how it would be unprofessional to get dressed where you need to get dressed. |
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I have never met a parking lot I could not change in without anyone seeing me do so. I would much rather change in the parking lot than tote my sh*t to a changing room 100 yards or more away. |
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Pre-games with morons (which many umps are), pre-games with those who don't know enough to engage in a meaningful pre-game (which many umps qualify), pre-game with those who don't need it because they have worked together so often...looks to me like pre-games, since they are touted to be of such great value on this Forum, don't have such great value. Which, again, is my entire point. It's a bunch of BS those that on this Forum are constanlty claiming great value to pre-games. |
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