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Originally posted by Carl Childress
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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
Sure, the stories about rats make for the most entertaining stories just like your stories about the Old Smitty. But the Old Smitty is an entertaining device you use to make a point whereas me calling a coach a rat is "my attitude about coaches."
And remember -- all this started because you couldn't understand a little one-line joke I made in a previous post.
[Edited by Rich Fronheiser on Apr 17th, 2005 at 01:23 PM]
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I am glad to see that someone is admitting the "rat" stories are for entertainment and do not represent the umpire's attitude toward a coach. It is the first I've read of that, though. Your compadres always seem so serious. One of your friends called coaches "sleazy." I prefer the term "competitive." I like coaches. If it weren't for them even the bad ones a lot of kids would sit around doing nothing constructive.
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That may have been me, I don't remember, but there ARE sleazy coaches and there are competitive coaches. All coaches, however, if they are doing their job, are lobbyists and are working everything, including the umpire, in an attempt to get an advantage for their team, deserved or otherwise. That makes them and what they say during a game, untrustworthy, or Rat-like.