Brushing off the picthing plate and the bases

[Julio Caliente]

My significant other umpires FP softball and was selected to do a national tournament and luckily the tournament is about a 5 min drive from my house. Anyways I went to watch her umpire today and saw her brushing off the pitching plate in between innings and a base if it got dirty. I was asking myself WTF because she is no "smitty", but I wasn't going to ask her during the game. Well, after the game I asked her what the heck she was doing and she said the UIC wants them to do it and she would have gotten marked off on her "grade" if she didn't. Here is something we are adamantly against doing, yet in FP softball they are required to do it. I thought that was hilarious........