Umpire Recruitment

NCASAUmp

Ref Ump Welsch wrote
I'm surprised you had to pay for an ad on Craigslist. I thought it was a free advertising board. :confused:

It is my understanding (from a weekly tech podcast I listen to) that job postings and the "erotic services" are not free. All other postings are free.

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NCASAUmp wrote
It is my understanding (from a weekly tech podcast I listen to) that job postings and the "erotic services" are not free. All other postings are free.

That explains why the local police is catching some flack for the entrapment they set up on Craigslist back in February. Unwise use of tax dollars! 😛

NCASAUmp

Ref Ump Welsch wrote
That explains why the local police is catching some flack for the entrapment they set up on Craigslist back in February. Unwise use of tax dollars! :p

Hey... $25 ad bringing in hundreds of dollars in fines for soliciting a prostitute? Sounds like a worthy investment to me. Though I must say that I've never understood how it could be illegal to have someone pay for something that's free to give away. An orgasm is not the worst thing you can give a person.

I'll end my part of the discussion there. 🙂

NCASAUmp

But back to the OP, I don't believe our org has seen an increase or a decrease in the number of incoming umpires. Gained a couple, lost a couple, nothing real dramatic.

We've always been fortunate enough to have a decent supply of umpires in our org, and our attrition rate has always been low. Fortunately, the only ones who leave seem to be the ones we would want to leave anyway.

Andy

NCASAUmp wrote
...Fortunately, the only ones who leave seem to be the ones we would want to leave anyway.

Any way you can teach me how to make that happen?????

NCASAUmp

Andy wrote
Any way you can teach me how to make that happen?????

Give 'em the whiniest teams?

Actually, a lot of the new fellas who won't make the cut will eventually drop out on their own. They'll just get tired of getting yelled at.

It's the ones you DON'T want to lose that you should be concentrating on.

IRISHMAFIA

Andy wrote
Any way you can teach me how to make that happen?????

That's simple. They supposedly send them to Transylvania County for a "tournament". Most of them don't make their way back. They wander into the Pisgah or become professors at Brevard College.

NCASAUmp

IRISHMAFIA wrote
That's simple. They supposedly send them to Transylvania County for a "tournament". Most of them don't make their way back. They wander into the Pisgah or become professors at Brevard College.

Which Transylvania County? We have one here in NC, too. 😀

Dakota

NCASAUmp wrote
Which Transylvania County? We have one here in NC, too. 😃

So's Pisgah (National Forest) and Brevard College... 🙄

IRISHMAFIA

Dakota wrote
So's Pisgah (National Forest) and Brevard College... :rolleyes:

Hey, give him a break on his geography, he's from Wisconsin.

NCASAUmp

IRISHMAFIA wrote
Hey, give him a break on his geography, he's from Wisconsin.

If it ain't RDU, I barely know it!

JefferMC

I don't know that they hold Fast Pitch Tournaments around Brevard. Hendersonville, sure, but not Transylvania. Dang, that would be nice in mid-summer... like when it's 106 in Spartanburg.

IRISHMAFIA

JefferMC wrote
I don't know that they hold Fast Pitch Tournaments around Brevard. Hendersonville, sure, but not Transylvania. Dang, that would be nice in mid-summer... like when it's 106 in Spartanburg.

Never said there WAS a tournament, just that they sent umpires they wanted to get rid of there for one. 😀

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IRISHMAFIA wrote
Never said there WAS a tournament, just that they sent umpires they wanted to get rid of there for one. 😃

I like the logic 😀