Tough Trip for a MLB/MILB Umpire

[LeeBallanfant]

According to the MLB and MILB sites, Mike Estabrook worked at 2B in Cleveland on Tueday night, July 29 and then works a NOON game in Pawtucket behind the plate on Wednesday July 30.

Is this a test of endurance before you can become a MLB umpire? Just the logistics of getting from Cleveland at 11PM and arriving in Pawtucket the next morning would baffle me.

[ozzy6900]

Originally Posted by LeeBallanfant

According to the MLB and MILB sites, Mike Estabrook worked at 2B in Cleveland on Tueday night, July 29 and then works a NOON game in Pawtucket behind the plate on Wednesday July 30.

Is this a test of endurance before you can become a MLB umpire? Just the logistics of getting from Cleveland at 11PM and arriving in Pawtucket the next morning would baffle me.

It's part of the "game" for these guys. In the old days, MiLB guys would work a night game, get in the car and drive 200 miles for a double header the next day. I don't know if they still do this today.

[tballump]

Like Ozzie, I thought I read one time in a paper where the umps had a double header in someplace like Memphis starting at 6:00pm Memphis time (CT) that ended at 12 or 1 in the morning Memphis time, and then they had to drive for a double header in Orlando starting 6:00 pm (EST) and had to be there an hour before game time. Believe I also read in the paper something similar for games in Texas and having to go from one end to the other. But what do I know anyway or remember, cause I'm just a tballump.