I had a game Saturday night and tried to put to practice some of the techniques my dad and you guys have given. Helped alot that it was a well played game and wasn't very intense early in the game. I was able to talk to a few players that tried to help make a few calls when the ball went OOB and said "Red". When it was obvious that it was white ball and I responded by saying "Nice try but it's still white's". Also a situation where the home team had a player that was very fired up, cheering for his teammates when he came into the game I commented to one of his teammates that he seemed to be a little fired up. And he responed with "That's good.". Those things all happened during the first half.

Second half the game got a little more intense and because of the fact that I had joked and talked with the players earlier helped and made it easier to talk with them to calm them down at intense parts of the game.

One other comment I was able to use was from my Dad and I had a couple of players tuck their shirts in and said to them after that that they make us be fashion police so help us out a little. Got a grin out of one of the players.

The one thing I noticed about being a little more relaxed and hopefully seeming a little more approachable seemed to make the game go a little bit smoother.

At least until my partner had to call an intentional foul and T the coach up twice with under a minute left in the game.

Thanks for the help.