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Originally posted by WindyCityBlue
Please tell me how many basketball camps you have taught at None...i find basketball to be boring.
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I was a clinician at Rock Valley College a few weeks ago. I am currently a clinician during a summer league at Oak Park River Forest. I am also speaking at IACAO this year. I acted as a clinician last year with some first year officials and teaching two man and officiating procedures.
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Originally posted by WindyCityBlue
If that is your conclusion, then your reading teacher should be fired. Did you notice that you are the only one trying to argue this? Jurassic Referee realizes that his point was challenged successfully and hasn't said a peep. You continue to stun us with your revisionist sense of history.
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I am not going to speak for JR. But knowing him like I do over the years, if he agreed with your point of view, he would probably tell you. JR does not just go and hide on any issue. And if he is done talking to you because you are a tool, he will tell you about that as well. Do not think he just agrees with you at all. Both JR and me are not the only ones that have disagreed with you on this. There have been others that have taken issue with you on your perspective. But Peter and you have made this all about me.
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Originally posted by WindyCityBlue
Even Custer knew when he was going to lose the battle.
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I did not realize we were keeping score and why people decided not to respond. You seem to know a lot about what other people think and what others seem to feel.
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Originally posted by WindyCityBlue
You ran out of bullets a long time ago.
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You should leave your advice to your cronies.
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Originally posted by WindyCityBlue
By the way, I never once mentioned your race, size or shape. But you keep throwing barbs at HHH. Can't you argue effectively without calling names?
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I keep thrown barbs at Peter because he is always getting personal with me. You do not have to get personal just by using race or name calling. He is calling me a fraud (which I am still waiting for evidence) without saying how I am a fraud. I guess I am a fraud because I dare challenge the outrageous point of view from two individuals that have never worked with me. Peter lives in DC or some place. What the hell does he know about me? You do not even know anything about me either. You claim I live in a Southwest Suburb. Peter was not even in on this discussion, but he has posted a bunch of things about me. This discussion is not about me, this is about a point of view. He has even posted to challenge me to something that has nothing to do with this discussion. But I am the one name calling?
The bottom line, I do not agree with your point of view on this. Nothing more, nothing less. This is not about the level we do or the camps we attend. I have worked many games with folks on your level that you claim to be working. I have yet remember any of them to see it your way on this issue. Umpires crews are a team, it is not my job to do it for them. They have to make many tough calls without my help. And they have to make those calls when I am watching something else. I would love to watch everything my partner does, but I cannot all the time. And if my partner has a bang, bang play and does not ask for help, I am not giving help. I also discuss this in every single pregame I have. I also discuss the many situations where help should be asked for if needed. Now if you want to say, "this is what we do at the D1 level," that is fine and helpful. Because we all can learn from that. But what happens in the college ranks, does not always apply to the HS and lower levels. For one, we might not have the same amount of umpires on the field and we might not have the same guidelines to handle those situations. The very same thing for your Minor League experience. Anyone that knows anything realizes that all those levels have some different guidelines and philsophies at play. That is the case in my other sports. I know it is not different in baseball. If you want to dismiss my point of view, good. That is your right.
Peace
[Edited by JRutledge on Jun 30th, 2004 at 02:37 PM]