Youth Ball Follies

[WhistlesAndStripes]

Originally Posted by bas2456

Also, some of the partners I've worked with won't take care of business when they need to, IMO. How does that saying go...We permit what we promote?

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I think you reversed the Ps. We PROMOTE what we PERMIT.


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[bas2456]

Originally Posted by Whistles & Stripes

I think you reversed the Ps. We PROMOTE what we PERMIT.


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Yes. Yes I did. Thank you.


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[WhistlesAndStripes]

I should also add that where I'm at, for men's rec league, we get 3 games a night at $35 per game. Not bad for 3 hours of babysitting adults.


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[bas2456]

Originally Posted by Whistles & Stripes

I should also add that where I'm at, for men's rec league, we get 3 games a night at $35 per game. Not bad for 3 hours of babysitting adults.


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Not bad. I'd sign up for that.


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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bas2456

Not bad. I'd sign up for that.

I wouldn't touch that with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole

[IUgrad92]

Originally Posted by Rich

Now the losing coach decides to get his money's worth with us, dropping 2 f-bombs in my direction in the process. A coach of 8th graders, mind you.

All that for $25.

Next youth games....probably November.

Happen to file a report or notify league officials about this guy? Surely that's not what they are looking for in representing their league.... I would like to think there would be a good chance that this kind of behavior would end a coach's season real quick and I know my kid would no longer be playing for him.

Especially knowing that the game itself was officiated well and the coach had no excuse for such surly behavior

[BlueDevilRef]

Thanks for the pity y'all. I'm not sure what teams pay here for leagues but maybe it is less than other areas. I don't know. I would like to make more for sure. I don't do adults anymore but that is bc there is only one place that I've ever done it and the long standing partner there is HORRIBLE. And he is always the partner. I almost walked off last time so I'll just not do that anymore.

[zm1283]

I don't work off-season basketball. I'd rather stand on a baseball field when it's 90 degrees than run up and down a court for 8 games and barely make anything for it.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by zm1283

I don't work off-season basketball. I'd rather stand on a baseball field when it's 90 degrees than run up and down a court for 8 games and barely make anything for it.

When I worked baseball I was just the opposite. For one I know my basketball game will not get cancelled. Baseball games might get cancelled based on what happened two days ago. If I am going to leave my house I would like to know I have something I am leaving for.

Peace

[BlueDevilRef]

Originally Posted by zm1283

I don't work off-season basketball. I'd rather stand on a baseball field when it's 90 degrees than run up and down a court for 8 games and barely make anything for it.

I don't do it a lot. Mainly just the Fieldhouse bc it's close to home and the staff there does a decent job. I only work for your dad whenever he gets in a bind. I really don't like adult league. At least with kids, they don't make it such a big deal. I try to do some basketball in summer just to keep a different perspective from constant fast pitch. It has helped keep me from burning out by end of fast pitch in fall.

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by BlueDevilRef

I don't do it a lot. Mainly just the Fieldhouse bc it's close to home and the staff there does a decent job. I only work for your dad whenever he gets in a bind. I really don't like adult league. At least with kids, they don't make it such a big deal. I try to do some basketball in summer just to keep a different perspective from constant fast pitch. It has helped keep me from burning out by end of fast pitch in fall.

I can see that about fastpitch softball. I would not want to work travel baseball for an entire summer before the real season started. I would be burnt out by the time the season started.

I'm in no way criticizing anyone who works basketball in the off season. It's just that the school season is long enough, so I'm ready for it to be done by the time March rolls around.

[UNIgiantslayers]

We're around $25 a game here for youth tourneys and wreck league.

As some might recall, this is the first year I've worked adult wreck league. One of the guys that I worked with at the beginning of this year for wreck league gave me advice along the lines of "give it back to them," if they're giving you a hard time. I found this made things worse and gave them license to keep whining. Lately I've just been quick on the T. If that doesn't shut them up, they're gone. Makes things much easier for me, because they are starting to figure out that I don't listen to it. Even if they're just whining about calls, I give them one freebie and after that I'll serve them. I'm over dealing with adults acting like little girls for $25.

[Kansas Ref]

Does the variation in your game fee compensation lead you to either "consciously" or "unconsciously" work "harder" or "less harder" when you're officiating a game?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Kansas Ref

Does the variation in your game fee compensation lead you to either "consciously" or "unconsciously" work "harder" or "less harder" when you're officiating a game?

"work harder?" Not at all, but I will make cuts in how much garbage I take from the bench. I'm more likely to skip to a T, unless I happen to be working on that particular skill set.

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by Kansas Ref

Does the variation in your game fee compensation lead you to either "consciously" or "unconsciously" work "harder" or "less harder" when you're officiating a game?

If I choose to accept a game, regardless of the fee, I feel like I should work just as hard. If I accept that game, I have essentially agreed to work as hard as any other. But there are a lot of guys who see it differently - lower fee means lower expectations.