After 20-plus years of umpiring youth baseball, I’m calling it quits as suddenly as I entered the “profession” when I volunteered to umpire my son’s ball game because the assigned umpire didn’t show. This brief podcast explains my reasons why I made an on-the-field decision to walk away.

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Music: “Field Grass,” by Sergei Parkin