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Could someone please help me understand this question. Why are we paying umpires more this year than last year? Did they go to school and take more courses to become a better umpire? Did this pay raise give us more umpires than we had last year? Are they going to be faster and see better than last year? Will they be a year older and slower? Will they have a better attitude for the extra money? Are they going to work longer time limits for tournament games than last year? 

 

 When you go out for dinner and you have to pay more don't you expect more for your money??? So are we getting more or the same or less? Just like to hear some answers why they are getting more money for the same job.

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Who knows why they gave a pay raise. We all know there's an abundance of bodies willing to umpire. Umpires already make a killing too. It's not like umpires have anything else going on, umpiring is their main gig, right? They ought to be grateful for any payment since they get to spend the majority of their spring time evenings away from the wife and kids. That's payment enough, right? I like Devilsden idea, let's petition the TSSAA to get this started ASAP! I think the umps should not only pay the schools, but the TSSAA as well! Money, money, monnnnneyyy! Moneeyy! 

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There is an umpire shortage across the entire U.S.  Soon, many of your varsity games will be called with 1 umpire due to the shortage.  Instead of getting on CoachT and griping, why don't you join in and umpire to help alleviate this problem?

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There is an umpire shortage across the entire U.S.  Soon, many of your varsity games will be called with 1 umpire due to the shortage.  Instead of getting on CoachT and griping, why don't you join in and umpire to help alleviate this problem?

I can tell that you are an umpire. I don't think there is really an umpire shortage in the U.S. There may be some in states, but not in the whole country.

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I can tell that you are an umpire. I don't think there is really an umpire shortage in the U.S. There may be some in states, but not in the whole country.

...and you were saying....

 

I bet there will be no followup response.  Facts have a tendency to kill ignorance.

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OK please help me out!

 

The assigning officers for the softball umpires are all men. Most of them are over 65 years old. We should be getting more women involved in our sport. I have seen in the past, that these officers are treating people like they did 30 years ago. There is one assigning officer who assigns baseball and softball. One of his umpires asked him to call either baseball or softball, during the week, but not back and forth. This aging assigning officer was NOT going to be told what to do. He showed the umpire who was in charge. So therefore, the rest of the year, he had a baseball game and then softball. So, the umpire quit! He was an excellent umpire, a very good man, but he wasn't going to be treated unfairly.

 

The T$$AA lets these older gentlemen continue to be in charge.....again why not change the culture and get more women involved. As a husband and father, I don't want my wife or daughter working for these men. Time has past them by, but the T$$AA continues the same course. Guess what you get when you don't change course......the same results.

 

So do you really think that more people will want to umpire if you raise the rate or until you solve the problems? 

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You're clueless. In the decades I've been involved with officiating, not once I have heard an official or an assigner say anything remotely close to being racist or sexist. The people that do these jobs are doing them because they're the ones that volunteered. As few people there are now days willing to umpire, there's a much, much, much smaller portion willing to be an assigner. Go educate your self on this topic and volunteer, stop your b****ing, and get a taste. You look like a fool with the posts you've been making here. There are not people beating on the TSSAA door to sign up to be a virtually unpaid assigner that gets to deal with scheduling games, that constantly change, deal with hot headed coaches and clueless coaches, coordinate 30+ umpires schedules to get it all work out. You would lose your mind after day one. If you're half the man that my former assigner is, the world will owe you a huge debt of gratitude. Assigners are not the reason people don't umpire, it's the commitment, time and also having to deal with douchebags in the stands and sometimes in the dugout.

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