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					Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve  In my opinion, anything less than a single game fee for umpires that
 1) Accepted the assignments, making them unavailable for anything else,
 2) traveled to the game site at their own expense, and
 3) started a game at the direction of the tournament
 
 is unacceptable and inappropriate. Without any additional circumstances being known; if it were a benefit or for charity, for example.
 
 As an umpire assignor/coordinator, I would refuse to send that TD any further umpires, and counsel my umpire staff to avoid any other effort. If part of a major sanction, I would also pursue through that State Commissioner/Director and State UIC; if they support the nonpayment, then I would no longer support that sanction.
 |  Who would pay for that?
		 
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