Umpires accosted off the field following Midwest Collegiate League Game

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by GROUPthink

Imagine that. The league sided, in the end, with the rat.

Are we surprised?

Peace

[Publius]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

And what is the benefit of doing these leagues again? Remind me so I can avoid them even more than I do now.

Peace

the money's not bad, and I know a dozen guys who have worked indy ball for 10 years or more with nothing like this ever happening to them.

[UMP25]

BTW, I want to make it clear that I have not here or even privately with any of the MCL umpires urged them to resign en masse, go on strike, or anything like that. What they choose to do is up to them. I did not recommend or suggest anything to them. The last thing I want is for the league to think I'm behind some work action.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Publius

the money's not bad, and I know a dozen guys who have worked indy ball for 10 years or more with nothing like this ever happening to them.

I can do a lot of other things for the money and I know my games are not going to get cancelled. To each his own I guess.

Peace

[youngump]

Originally Posted by UMP25

Permit me to preface this post by stating that I am not here to bash the league or its commissioner or even my friend who is the assignor. I'm simply sharing an incident with y'all that occurred after a game I worked last night in Sycamore, IL. (a town that borders DeKalb, home of NIU). In 35 years of umpiring and 21 at the NCAA/college level, I have never experienced anything like what transpired last night.

Rather than rehash everything here, I've uploaded to dropbox the umpire report that I submitted late last night/early this morning. (It was too large to upload to the forum.)

Click here to view it.

Feel free to peruse it and opine here--not about the report; rather, your thoughts on the entire situation. Again, I'm not here to bash the league or its commissioner, or even demand that they do this or that. It's in their hands, and we umpires in the league are simply waiting to see what happens.

That's not redacted (it's just black). If you're not comfortable with making the details public and I'd say you're probably right not to, you need to actually delete the words out of the doc, or change them to x's or something.