Awfully hot weather

[outathm]

Larry:

We have a similar program here where every year after the tourney I get complaints about the umpires that are put on the field. NO hotels rooms, $35 for out of town umpires, $33 for locals, Rain canceled games=no pay, even if the tourney minimum game requirement has been met so no team refunds, I could go on.

I tell the tournament director that three hotel rooms will place the 6 worst with 6 of the best umpires. He still will not budge, then emails me to say that he is disappointed with he umpires his assigner puts on the field. Same guy that told the assigner he did not want me to work the tourney. I am sure you can imagine the sympathy he gets from me.

[DNTXUM P]

Originally Posted by outathm

Larry:

We have a similar program here where every year after the tourney I get complaints about the umpires that are put on the field. NO hotels rooms, $35 for out of town umpires, $33 for locals, Rain canceled games=no pay, even if the tourney minimum game requirement has been met so no team refunds, I could go on.

I tell the tournament director that three hotel rooms will place the 6 worst with 6 of the best umpires. He still will not budge, then emails me to say that he is disappointed with he umpires his assigner puts on the field. Same guy that told the assigner he did not want me to work the tourney. I am sure you can imagine the sympathy he gets from me.

This was the city of San Antonio's call. They have 70 - 80 teams coming in for this qualifier. All they had to do was work with the hotels and get a few comp rooms. I was in OKC this past weekend and they put us up at the Marriott thru comp rooms and everything was great. Had a good time in spite of the heat. Our region 7 UIC will be there running things, but I cannot see driving hours each way, work in 105+ heat and lose $200 for the weekend.

[ronald]

Looks like they will have to go with the local yahoos then.

I got 20 dollars in 2002 when I left Houston. Where is the raise?

[Dutch Alex]

We'll have a standard fee of 35Euro / DH in Elite competition (20Euro / single gama) and 25 Euro / DH lower classes (15 Euro / single game) PLUS 0,18 Euro / km for traveling.
On top of that we ALWAYS have a lockerroom, some drinks (mostly something to eat) for free and (for Larry) we may work in blue pants

Living in the centre of the Netherlands, I never have to drive more than 2 hours. But the weather isn't always that good

[DNTXUM P]

Originally Posted by ronald

Looks like they will have to go with the local yahoos then.

I got 20 dollars in 2002 when I left Houston. Where is the raise?

I want to be clear. This wasn't the fault of the UIC or anyone in San Antonio other than the city and the Park and Rec Dept. Good luck to everyone there. My biggest fear for those guys there is that they may have to work 2 or 3 games in a row before getting a game break. With 106 temp and extremely high humidity, it will not be a good situation. I just no one gets heat stroke.

[Skahtboi]

Originally Posted by DNTXUM P

I want to be clear. This wasn't the fault of the UIC or anyone in San Antonio other than the city and the Park and Rec Dept. Good luck to everyone there. My biggest fear for those guys there is that they may have to work 2 or 3 games in a row before getting a game break. With 106 temp and extremely high humidity, it will not be a good situation. I just no one gets heat stroke.

From what I understand, the plan is still to go one on and one off. Have you heard differently?

[DNTXUM P]

Originally Posted by Skahtboi

From what I understand, the plan is still to go one on and one off. Have you heard differently?

Only that they are still needing a bunch of folks and not getting many out of towners as of last time I heard. My reasoning is that if they don't get several umps from out of town they will be working very hard or they will use less qualified local umps. I just hope that those working keep hydrated and cool. Temps might be coming down as here it is supposed to be down to 95 this wekend.

Only had a couple of rooms on base and a few couches a local umps houses. Might have changed since the last email came out, but didn't sound like it.