Will Umpire for Food

[blanco7]

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Originally posted by T Alan:
I have watched the Big League Championship Game, the Pony championship Game, something called the "Senior" Babe Ruth Championship game, all on my Dish.

These games, alng with the current LLWS, have one thing in common.

The umpires in all these games are working for FREE.

Now this is an easy explaination of why I have seen HORRIBLE umpiring in all these games - but my question is -

Why do these "World Series" championships establish the most important administrative job (umpiring) simply to people who will work for free RATHER than spending some money and have upper level qualified umpires do the games.

I have simply given up watching these games. It is not worth my frustration.

T Alan
Member that is Large

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Last year I did Regional and Zone games for Pony and they pay $25 per game for those games. I think it lack of willingness to use whatever is avaialable and not necessarily a selection process to evaluate who are the better umps