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Old Fri Aug 04, 2006, 01:10am
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Originally Posted by rainmaker
Not a habit, as Brad says, but 2 or 3 times in 5 years of middle school ball might be okay. You might also try, as play goes on "Coach, I"ll explain later" and then go back to focusing on the game. He may very well forget all about it, but if he doesn't, he'll probably learn something useful. It's a chance to sort of screen out the yell'er from the serious learn'er.
Ms. Downs, since it's after Mr. Grammar Guy's normal bedtime, I'm afraid it falls to me to show you the yellow card for a double spurious misuse of an apostrophe. As soon as I've jotted your name down in my little book, we'll restart this thread with an indirect free kick.
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