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Adult League in Turmoil
This is a continuation of the "Was it too much?" thread. I would like to get some suggestions on what the league I play in could do to make working games for them more appealing to umpires.
In the case of this league, it's the 5% or so that ruin things for everyone else involved. The sad thing is that there is talent in the league. A lot of players have semi-pro experience, but choose to play in the rec league for various reasons. The league itself is in a bit of turmoil this year. We are struggling to get diamonds booked because the players terrorized one of the umpires who happens to also be responsible for booking diamonds. We have had umpires fear for their safety doing this league, and one even walked off the field to avoid harm. The player abuse of umpires has been a constant trend over the years. The league goes 9 innings which often means 4 hours. I enjoy it, but the umpires are fed up with working games that drag on forever, plus sometimes driving 25 minutes without compensation, just to make $40 before getting up for work the next morning. What would you guys recommend the league do to retain more umpires? There has been talk about a pay raise, going to 7 inning games, further disciplinary action with ejected participants, and even using wooden bats to speed things up. Comments would be appreciated. |
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My guess is that "everyone" knows who the 5% are. Kick them out of the league. (iow, put in place a suspension system for in-game and post-game problems).
4 hours is way too long for an amateur 9-inning game. Enforce the pace-of-game rules, and / or make week-night games 7 innings and weekend games 9-innings. The "commissioner" (or board, or league president) needs to be involved and not take the side of the players / managers. |
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![]() We've had similar problems over the years in basketball with a mens rec league and in football with a mens flag league. We told them both that the only way that they would get officials is (1) first ejection is one game, and (2) second ejection is the rest of the year. If contact was involved in either ejection, it would immediately be a lifetime ban. We also told them that there was zero tolerance, with no recourse for any ejection. Iow, a player got one kick at the can. If they truly want to clean their leagues up, they'll agree. If they don't, let 'em do their own damn games. |
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The Canadian dollar is strong but not that strong. $40 for a nine inning game!! That's ridiculous.
Last year we got $75 around here and that's probably 5 or 10 too low. I agree with all the above posters as well, change the culture of the league quickly with fast and fair ejections, suspensions and bannings. Pay a fair game fee and find a way to speed up the games and you'll prosper with better players, better competition and plenty of umpires. |
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Don't know much about exchange rates or where in Canada you live... but I believe it is about 1:1 these days. 40 bucks for 9 innings?
I know each area is different, but this seems remarkably low. Perhaps an increase in pay along with these suspension guidelines will get you some umpires. The adult leagues I work in CT are extremely respectful. One time I missed a pitch pretty bad, rookie year, I'm an 18 year old kid, they could have lit a fire under my ***. Only thing I heard from the dugout was, "Ok, it's hot back there, don't worry about it batter" I'll ask around and see what they did in order to get them that way. |
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In addition these individuals are permantly banned from the league. There needs to be strict enforcement from EVERYONE involved about player activity and it should be severe. In addtion you need to put Time llimits on these adult mens leagues games otherwise as yousaid they will last forever. Pete Booth
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