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Originally Posted by drinkeii
1) I simply do not understand how we can have a game with well-defined rules, and people choose not to enforce them consistently.
2) Guess I have different judgements than some of you. I am a rules person - that's the way I am - you can't play a game without rules. No one can debate this. You can't change the rules every time you play - or rather, shouldn't. This is debatable - the need for rules isn't.
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1) There's the whole problem right there, but you just can't see it. It is your
opinion that the rules aren't being enforced consistently. It is also probably the
opinion of the officials that you are having such a great time second-guessing that they
are enforcing the rules consistently. I simply can't believe that all of the other officials that you run into are that bad, and that wrong, at calling fouls.
2) I'm supposedly a rules person too. The problem is that you have to
understand the rules in order to apply them properly. Unfortunately, I've seen nothing to date in this thread that might show that you really understand the rules as written when it comes to calling fouls. Officials simply judge whether contact is legal or illegal. Some officials are better at doing that than other officials. Now and then, we'll
all get one wrong. We're imperfect people trying to do a perfect job.