Greetings and salutations true, blue believers,
With the MLB wild card games scheduled to begin Tuesday night, here is a list of this year’s wild card umpire crews: https://www.reuters.com/sports/mlb-sets-umpiring-crews-wild-card-series–flm-2026-09-28/ Congratulations to Erich Bacchus on his third Wild Card Series slot and congratulations to Dan Merzel on his first Wild Card Series slot and second overall post-season assignment! Best wishes to our additional local brothers Segal, Wills, and Miller on post-season slots.
Since meeting my wife, I’ve had occasion to visit our extended family many times in Buffalo, NY. (We like to tell people, “We winter in Buffalo…”) Flight time from DC to Buffalo is about 90 minutes. That’s just enough time for takeoff, the pilot to come on and tell us we’re at cruising altitude, the crew serves a drink and snack, the pilot announces our descent and approach and we land. Not enough time for a movie. That’s kind of how the fall baseball season hits me.
Calendar
Association Meetings
Sunday, Oct 25
Zoom Meeting @ 7:00 pm
Association Banquet
Saturday, November 21
Presidents Message
It’s the bottom of the 5th inning in a championship game. The visitors are ahead 3-2. The home team has a runner on first with one out. A lefty is at bat with a 2-2 count. The pitch comes in and it’s a long fly ball to deep right field. U1 goes out on the ball to make the call on the trouble ball.
Umpire Profile
Blues, not only do we here at NVBUA share the pleasure of Darren Schuberg’s work, training and mentoring in our midst, but in addition to all that, Darren has led a small but rich following of many high-quality umpires to our ranks.