Dropping down a notch on your own

[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by PeteBooth

Hi all:

Same is true for baseball. As a varsity official we all get our fare share of modifed / JV games (to help out the new umpires). At least in my area the JV games were a breeze and on average 1hr. 45 minutes to 2 hrs. compared to some varsity games that I had this year that lasted 2:45 to 3 hours plus the grief that comes with it.

My experience is completely the reverse of this. With the better pitching and hitting, my varsity games are much shorter than JV. I have not had a Varsity game run over 2:00 this year with most coming in at around 1:45 - 1:50.

On the other hand, I had a JV game run nearly three hours that included six pitching changes, too many fielding errors and numerous BOB's.

Give me Varsity anyday.