June is an important month for an amateur umpire at the high school level. We make more per game than at any other time (unless you work all varsity, which is only possible for the long-term guys). And it's also the last sport you're going to get to call until you get to football (or fall baseball); baseball pretty much winds down by July 4th. So you gotta get it in while you can.
And boy howdy, I'm doing just that. Tonight starts a 12-day run of games. Not only is it 12 straight days of games, but likely it will be 15 straight days (I'm missing a Sunday but can fill that up with youth league). I'm only taking June 16th off because it's my anniversary, and I REALLY like being married to Heidi and wouldn't want to do anything really bone-headed...like work games on my anniversary. After that, it's 13 working dates in 15 days...and it could also become 15 out of 15, since I might actually be able to work in some last-minute games here and there. That means I could end up working 30 of the next 31 days, starting tonight.
Whew...........
On second thought, I'll be glad baseball wraps up at the end of the month. I'll be ready for a vacation.
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On an interesting side note, we ran a copperhead off the field at Southmoore tonight. That's a first for me. He wasn't very happy, and we had to work harder to keep the players back than we did to chase him off the field. I didn't want to mention what he was until he was gone, because the last thing we needed was a bunch of excited kids around an aggressive venomous snake.
That's one of the great things about doing this...there's a lot of the same-old same-old, but there's also a lot of new and interesting things that happen that you probably wouldn't run into anywhere else.
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