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The value of the deduction for one single rainout date is possibly the weakest support for non-paying rainouts ever imaginable.
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Thank you for your highly entertaining post. Funny stuff. I was just wondering.... Does the assignor still get paid his assignment fee if the game is "...weathered out before official."? The assigner (sic) isn't "right" - he's a joke. JM
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The assignor probably makes a few extra bucks when he assigns the rescheduled game.
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If I was in it "only" for the love of umpiring, I would still be calling kid ball exclusively 5 min up the road. Getting into higher game fee's usually requires being a "pretty good" umpire.... If the higher game fee's are not motivation to get "pretty good" then what is??? If you are doing it only "for the love of the game" then you just stay down there in the youth leagues and let us worry about the money. Your comments are the most Asinine thing I've seen on here in a while. Game fee's for rain outs HELP umpires and is GOOD for umpiring. The best thing about game fee's for rain outs is that it makes the coaches and AD's give a **** about the umpires on some level enough to call them so YOU don't have to make a trip for nothing. Besides, the league you are calling in obviously only looks at you as a monetary figure anyways trying to not pay you, why should you look at them any different? |
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I like higher-level games for the challenge and to watch a higher level of play from the best seat in the house. No matter what the fee is, it is inadequate, so it's essentially irrelevant.
The fee is relevant for the other reasons that you so eloquently stated. We must get paid something so that we can be respectable. |
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Frankly, money is one of the key reasons I packed in the 3 D3 conferences I worked the past 5 years. They simply didn't pay enough for the aggravation. $185 with no mileage for an 18-inning day that frequently lasted 6 hours (not a lot of good pitching, either) with a bunch of Earl Weaver wannabes - yeah, that was a whole lot of fun. And the 2-3 hour drives up front. If they worked 3-person, I'd do it, but having to do a plate job every single day and having to drive most of the time, not worth it to me. Although I'm not really doing it for the money, it's part of the picture of respect (or lack thereof) that you get. And AFAIC, hiring 2 umpires for NCAA baseball is about as little respect as a sport can get -- they'd never think of running less than 3 for basketball or 7 for football these days. This year I worked a lot of HS doubleheaders on Saturdays and made $120 for 14 innings and was 30 minutes from the house. |
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I'd pay some of my game fee's back if I could grantee good pitching every game!! |
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I agree with Rich. Using your scenario what's to stop the teams from not calling at all when games are cancelled, move to a different site, different time etc. The teams would 'walk all over" the umpires. As Rich stated OUR job is to get to the game site preferably 30-45 minutes ahead of time. SITCH: USING YOUR PHILOSOPHY Team A realizes they will not have their studs present today so they decide to simply NOT show up. they tell the other coach but not the umpire assignor. Assume Rich and I partners. We are leaving work etc. and now we get to the game and there are no teams present. According to your philosophy we should not get paid. We just left work (maybe early and used either vacation and or personal time that we had accrued so it is costing us money) ANYTIME and any REASON the coaches wanted to cancel games with NO reprocussions they would. the one thing I give kuddos for is this: At least there is a policy. It might suck but it is written and now it's up to the members to either accept or reject it. Me personally I would reject it BUT if an umpire does accept the terms then they cannot squalk later on. Pete Booth
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Game #1 (Level of Play--Boys' H.S. Varsity): Final Score: Home-3, Visitor-2; Number of Innings: 6-1/2; Length of Game: 1 hr, 20 min; Game Fee: $60 Game #2 (Level of Play--Boys' H.S. Freshmen): Final Score: Home-15, Visitor-32; Number of Innings: 7; Length of Game: 3 hr, 20 min; Game Fee: $40 Rich: I see your point, . I had Game #2 years ago when the OhioHSAA had a 15-run rule. MTD, Sr.
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I work basketball and do between 35-40 games a season, all varsity. The JV game beforehand is usually, without a doubt, the more difficult game to call consistently. And yet I'd rather stay home than work one. The only beast that's different is football. With one game a week, all Fridays, it's fun going out on Mondays and Thursdays and working subvarsity with the crew. |
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Rich: You missed my point. I agree with you. But there are some of us that work all three levels (FR, JV, and VAR) during the course of the season, and when you get those three hour FR or JV games, you really earn your game fee. MTD, Sr.
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