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Thats another problem all together... you didnt have an umpire advocate for an assignor. This has been a growing problem in the sport because people are to afraid to stand up to someone and protect their umpires. I have been one to protect my umpires where I assign and people dont like it at first. However later on they begin to respect and understand it. I mean I wont defend a guy who has done something completely idiotic and admits to it or I find out from a thrid party how it went down. Bottom line I do some serious investigating when that kind of thing goes down and I defend my umpires rather than hang them out to dry. We get enough of that as part of the job
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I hear that.... I get that a little more with my college assignors than with hs and others
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This is one of the main reasons I didn't jump ship in the early 90s when I had a chance to work college ball. My association lost the college games to an upstart association that used "collegiate" in their title. Our association prohibited dual-membership. You had to either stay with it, or burn your bridge with any HS ball. My assignor was (and still is) an umpire's umpire, who wouldn't take any crap off coaches, and in cases like yours would have backed you all the way. I did not want to go work for anyone else, because this guy always came to my defense with the area HS coaches.
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I would not do it and he started cutting my schedule, so I just quit and went back to doing HS which in our area is better baseball anyway. (and the games are played at night so it doesn't affect my job) When I was in TX, the coaches wanted us to come and tryout (do a scrimmage game) before we were allowed to call their games at certain schools. I told my assisgnor, I don't want to work at those schools (even if they were D1) simply because I'm not going to cater to a coach. I'm sure there are many umpires who will "go along" with this philosophy just to be able to do the games, I'm sorry I just can't do that. My integrity is more important than trying to babysit college coaches who are making "way too much money". Thanks David |
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