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Old Mon Jan 18, 2010, 03:50pm
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Old Mon Jan 18, 2010, 04:19pm
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I guess I'll never be upset at my Assignor for taking his cut again......

Fullor - I may not be Mark or Billy, but, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
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Old Mon Jan 18, 2010, 05:11pm
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I guess I'll never be upset at my Assignor for taking his cut again......

Fullor - I may not be Mark or Billy, but, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
Man, they must've intended to pay their officials well!!!
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Old Mon Jan 18, 2010, 05:58pm
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There is an umpire in the Portland-Metro area who owes dozens of guys money for games they work.

I appears he runs a sort of "Ponzi Scheme" where he is using the new money coming in to pay guys he wants to keep around. If he doesn't want to keep you, he just doesn't pay!

He keeps the "better" officials happy by paying them so that he can continue to have the numbers to undercut the local umpires association. He has taken a few accounts by offering to assign the games for less money. Every year, he is able to find a slew of umps who either don't know, or don't believe that he jips umps of their pay. Every year, I told to a dozen more guys who didn't get paid and are owed hundreds of dollars!

Great racket for him! I mean, who needs enemies on the field when one of our own is so willing to stick it to you.
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Old Mon Jan 18, 2010, 06:04pm
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Hey - it's the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. I bet a lot of people in the area think the only thing the guy did wrong was get caught!

BTW - I see he was picked up by the cops in Flossmoor. I don't know if it's still the same, but when I was a kid in that area, Flossmoor was a pretty upscale high-income suburb.
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Old Mon Jan 18, 2010, 07:20pm
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I guess I'll never be upset at my Assignor for taking his cut again......

Fullor - I may not be Mark or Billy, but, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
not bad!
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Old Mon Jan 18, 2010, 07:23pm
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Hey - it's the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. I bet a lot of people in the area think the only thing the guy did wrong was get caught!

BTW - I see he was picked up by the cops in Flossmoor. I don't know if it's still the same, but when I was a kid in that area, Flossmoor was a pretty upscale high-income suburb.


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Old Mon Jan 18, 2010, 08:01pm
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I appears he runs a sort of "Ponzi Scheme" where he is using the new money coming in to pay guys he wants to keep around. If he doesn't want to keep you, he just doesn't pay!
I didn't know that Bernie Madoff was an assigner.
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Old Mon Jan 18, 2010, 11:11pm
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Hey - it's the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. I bet a lot of people in the area think the only thing the guy did wrong was get caught!

BTW - I see he was picked up by the cops in Flossmoor. I don't know if it's still the same, but when I was a kid in that area, Flossmoor was a pretty upscale high-income suburb.
It went downhill after you left.
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