2020, anyone?

[AtlUmpSteve]

Originally Posted by wadeintothem

Really?

Every since I saw forest gump shake hands with JFK, I just dont take everything I see at face value. I'm like Minnesota.... er.. Missouri.

I do find it humerous that you AND gary think calling so cal umps so cal umps is degrading.

I guess you belive that he is out running around getting umps assigned 11 months before the event. Thats what he is doing? Flying them in from 11 states.

You know, an umpire couldnt even list this thing on their resume, it means nothing. No one is jumping to do this. Its just a tourney.

Missouri.

It isn't impossible if he lined up someone at an NCAA Coordinator level to promise him 24 umpires with those credentials. He wouldn't know who, or where they are from, but I could name several people in his area that could make that promise. Could probably do it with the Fireworks umpire roster, as a matter of fact. But WN, DC-N, or SE in SoCal could do it, in addition to JV or DN (sorry for the initials, but these people may not want their name associated with this effort; I'm only saying they are well enough placed to make that type of umpire roster happen). There are probably others that I don't know (I'm assuming that the ASA staff would be conflicted out, but add DM, RA, MB, DB, and others).