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Old Tue Oct 31, 2006, 12:57pm
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by deecee
i would love to hear how you talk to coaches -

you: coach your team member got a T for swearing
coach: which player got a T?
you: none of your players got a T -- it was that team member on the end of the bench
coach: which player's number?
you: coach its not a player its a team member
coach: ummmm.....

please to damn technical here -- if i had a link to the death of common sense article i would paste it here
Of course we're (well, I'm) not going to be that specific in most interactions with coaches. But, on an official's forum, it behooves us to us the proper vocabulary, especially when it makes a difference in the rule interpretation.
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