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First of all let me apologize if some were offended by the truth in my last post. Question was asked and was answered as I was there and witnessed it all going down. Harry was hospitalized unexpectedly, Oscar and I are good friends so do not take as a slam to him. The Independents live in house across from Village or in the Med shack bottom of hill. There were 3 of them in our bunk and yes they got paid 35.00 a game, ten dollars off 45 rate for room and board. The 45.00 rate was when they used NY local umps which are not used anymore. The assigning at end of tournament this PARTICULAR week was bad,

I do recall the indepen ants staying in the bunkhouse and yes I know an ump who worked without a team and on last day got his check so that part is real. They don't deal with locals like they once did. However since Bucket is not there it is chaos come assigning games..last 3 years an absolute nightmare and quality umps sat on Wednesday as the "buddy" system prevailed. Umpiring was HORRIBLE for most important time of tournament. I recall one game where coach refused to take the field until plate ump was removed from game. He must have remembered how terrible he was. Oscar made the switch