Working Alone.. one of those plays

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by surf24

true but our local league just doesn't "budget" for it.......and most of the newbies only get one or two nights of flying with a veteran before they are turned loose on their own.........it is sometimes very ugly

Well... many self-respecting umpires wouldn't be caught dead working a league where they are set up to fail. So not only do you get just 1, you get 1 that can't or won't find work elsewhere. Not to say this means that all of your umpires are bad ... just means you're going to attract bad ones (or there will be no one there to make the bad ones better, at the very least).

A league that devalues the role of umpire this much is simply going to get what it pays for, I guess.