Rabbit Ears?

Originally Posted by vcblue

Sometimes you have to remember you are an association. Yes, the President typically does a lot of work behind the Scenes, and should be thanked. However, sometimes they think their word is god and forget that the association has by-laws. Have the player rep (member-at-large) propose it to the group and vote on putting a program together.

Actually, when I meant our local association, I should have mentioned it was a corporation that runs the softball program for the city. The president is the owner of this corporation who has an advisory board, yadda yadda yadda. The umpires do have an advisory board that advises the main advisory board, yadda yadda yadda. You can see where I'm going with this.

It was just this year that our UIC's idea of having just 3 hours of clinic time for veterans with over 3 years of experience as opposed to the full 6 hours that we had been subjected to actually enacted, only because I had emailed the president myself. I went at it not from the perspective as an umpire, but as an educator, and lo and behold, my UIC was practically thanking as if I was the only one who could put the president over the hump on this.

Maybe I need to yak more with the UIC and the president, and get my nose a little brown, and just maybe, just maybe the mentoring thing will fly.