[Rich]

Originally Posted by Deeps12

While I will ignore the offense I take to some of your statement, I respect your opinion. Yet, you focused on only one part of my statement. You must work baseball, and I apologize if I was either disrespectful of that sports' officiating philosophies, or off base. Yet, you failed to absorb the rest of my statement. It is one thing to be constantly berated by a coach after warning and warning have been given. You dramatize this situation, however. In THIS situation, the coach has yet to berate anybody (roamin is 'surprised' and doesn't know what the coach is talking about).... So, out of courtesy, we do OWE the coach our take, contrary to rutledge's statement. It is his game, rutledge. Drop the ego, give him his just deserve. Courtesy and common sense say he deserves to know what we saw. Should he have relayed the request through the LJ, of course. But can we keep him out of trouble by providing him a response? Of course. Coaches want to vent, and they have EVERY right to do that. Once they've done that..... turn and walk away...... say 'i've heard enough, coach'...... Both suffice as proper warning, which has not been given in this case. A coach on the field during play, inexcusable. Charged timeouts are different and can be handled without the use of force (15).....

By the way....... Walt...... I promise I do know what I am talking about, and take offense to your assertion otherwise. I will respect how your level and conference deal with coaches, and will agree to disagree...... But will safely assert that being flag-happy toward coaches is certainly not something that the 'next' level wants to see.

Some of us don't care about the next level and how they handle things. We prefer to handle things right FOR THIS LEVEL.

It's my games as much as it's the coach's game, BTW. I'm not out there merely as his paid hired help.