Saw a lot of inconsistent strike zones but usually called both ways. Here's my real question....
I've seen a lot of negative comments about about umpires for this or that association being terrible.... I always got the impression that most umpires get sanctioned for multiple associations? For example if I'm umpiring in Ohio I probably am OHSAA, ASA, PGF, NSA and USSSA "certified". True or no?
My own experience has been that umpires in the central Ohio region tend to limit it to just a couple of sanctions. Many that do high school also do one of the major associations in the summer (ASA, NSA, USSSA) since these two seasons don't really overlap. You can do a full schedule of high school games in early spring, then when that season is over, do a full schedule of, say, ASA ball without much conflict in the schedules.
In the summer, it's kind of tough to work multiple sanctions. You would have multiple sanctioning fees to pay, multiple meetings and classes to attend and multiple assigners to deal with. And the assigners tend to not like it when you blow them off to work for another association, so if you do that enough times the assigners will begin to schedule you for fewer games.
An umpire might be forced to register with another association if he works in a league that plays under their rules. You might work ASA tournaments every weekend, but during the week do games for something under USSSA. The league might require you to register with USSSA, even if you don't plan on working any other of their games.
I don't want to answer for the entire state, because you can have completely different circumstances from city to city or region to region. But from what I see around here, most umpires tend to stick with one sanction during the summer. I've worked as many as three different ones in a season, but the third one was just to work one or two tournaments on weekends where I wasn't doing anything else. There is too much overlap, with tournaments all on the same weekend, for umpires to work more than one sanctioning body on a regular basis.