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ASA Ethics and Plicies (?)
I have a friend who works for an ASA group about 15 miles from her home. She's worked for them for 15 yrs - very successfully I might add. She lives 2 miles from one of the nicest softball complexes in the area, its a VTD league. This fall she decided to call one night a week at the local complex for a new UIC who is trying hard to do things the right way, unlike the former UIC he replaced. When she inquired why she was not assigned any games next week by the ASA league, she was told it was because she was calling one night per week for the VTD league. She was told her decision violated ASA "ethics and policies" and that her behavior was inappropriate.
I agree that (1) you never give up one assignment for another and (2) you service your own ASA group before other ASAs. But ASAs do not "own" their registered umpires. Would she get the same reaction if he did JUCO fall ball once a week? Who knows ..... Thoughts / Opinions please ... Last edited by 3afan; Sat Sep 24, 2016 at 05:24am. |
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I have seen this more as a recruiting tool used by other alphabets in trying to dissuade potential umpires from working ASA.
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To add my perspective;
I agree with ^^^^. It's a decision each assignor/coordinator needs to make to gain, improve, and/or keep staff. Not all "ball" is the same, and plays into it as well. And the concept of "loyalty" plays into it as well, and not everyone sees things the same way. I have, over the years, needed to discourage umpires from working certain "ball", because I considered it detrimental to their development as umpires. Yes, independent contractors are free to accept whatever they wish; at the same time, assignors are free to assign or not assign by whatever standards they wish to apply. Personally, I would let someone know up front what they might be doing that might affect future scheduling. Working BETTER ball; not a problem. Working junk ball that helps foster bad habits; yes, have said so, and have dealt with accordingly.
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What is VTD? MTD, Sr.
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"Virtual Tournament Director"
They were a small programming company (only handful of employees) which developed the predecessor to ASA's tournament and registration pages. When ASA took everything in-house, they got pissed off and started running their own tournaments (mostly in TX, I believe) to compete against ASA. To the best of my knowledge, still pretty small and local, if you can call anything in TX "local". ![]()
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So I'll chime in with a non sequitur. I work (or have worked) for a bunch of different alphabet-soup organizations here in AZ. Basically everything except U-Trip. As an umpire, I treat them all basically the same but I can't speak for the umpire assignors. The first assignment I accept is the one I am doing that day...there are a few exceptions, such as when a higher-level college assignor wants to give me games on a date I've accepted low-level college games.
I get it that there is, for whatever reason, some ASA hate here. I don't pretend to understand it as so many of us started as ASA umpires. I owe ASA for nearly everything I have become as an umpire. Now, ASA has a set of mechanics that have been developed to be "workable" by umpires of all levels for games of all levels. Is it perfect? No. I understand that ASA mechanics can be silly and restrictive given higher levels of play, but when we, as independent contractors choose to work for a given organization, we work for the letters on our shirt whether we like their mechanics and/or rules or not. Additionally, some people have bad history with other people so there is some politics involved, but I don't, and won't, participate in that. That said, and I haven't had to do this yet, I would not be willing to work again for an organization that did not assign me games when I was available simply because I sometimes worked for some other organization. The exception to this would be if I were on ASA (or other orgs) staff. We work for the betterment of ourselves and the betterment of the game. ...And our big-bucks $30 game fee.
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I've seen umpires do great, utilize their training and work some great games. And I've seen some working outside my area or sanctioning body and their mechanics and effort have dropped off tremendously. A lot of this comes from the lack of supervision and/or critique while working those games. It shouldn't happen, but it does.
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Bring your A game, but the bozo without a clue overrules a clear judgment call? Isn't there a rule that says this cannot happen (ASA 10.3.A, equivalent exists in EVERY rulebook that exists). Or when the Tournament Director overrules the rulebook for the almighty dollar?? Returns ejected coaches to the same game because he's a "good guy" and apologized? I don't care whatever else you believe, but I won't stand for any culture that allows any of this. THEN, you can deal with the level of competition not challenging an umpire that wants to move up.
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Just curious, are you in Denton, Grayson, or Collin county?
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