After a tense couple of weeks, especially on the Gulf Coast, it looks like the Alabama high school baseball season will start on time – weather permitting.
Alabama High School Athletic Association teams can officially play their first games Thursday, though the forecast doesn’t look great.
Combs, who has been umpiring baseball since 1998, said there was a statewide focus last summer designed to retain officials and recruit new ones. He said multiple meetings resulted in talks of a pay increase that “everyone wanted.”“We met the with AHSAA in August with our concerns and, again, our main purpose was to retain and recruit,” Combs said.
“I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve never worried about anything this much,” one Gulf Coast coach said earlier this week. “I feel helpless. I don’t know what to do. All I’m concerned about right now is how and where my kids are going to play.” Combs said the remaining members of his association are now ready to umpire games this year at the regular rate and hope a raise is implemented next year. Thornton and his group are ready as well. The schools along the Coast have signed on with one of the groups.
“I’ve received backlash, but I’ve prayed about it. I just want to do what is right. We do need a raise, but at the end of the day, let’s work, let the kids play and get the rest ironed out later.”“For the time we put in and the abuse sometimes we have to take, we need something to be able to keep new guys and retain our veterans,” he said.
Briggs also said the mileage fee structure changed in 2019-2020 from $8 per game per official regardless of distance to $25 per official for travel of 61 to 120 miles; $50 for travel from 121 to 180 miles and $75 for travel of more than 180 miles. There is no mileage fee added for travel less than 60 miles.
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