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Hi Jurassic
I guess the basketball Forum has it's share of "flame wars" also.
It's a shame because the thread about Joey Crawford should have been titled something along the lines of "how is a Professional official Defined"
It's unfortunate in BIG Time sports that no matter how good of an official you are, you get noted for the ONE BAD call that you made.
We saw this in baseball as well.
Don Denkinger was an excellent baseball official as voted by the coaches and his peers, yet he will be simply be remembered for the Bad call he made in the KC / Cardinals World Series many years back. He received death threats, etc.
Another NBA official that is noted for ONE call that comes to mind is Hugh Holands. To this day the Knicks Bulls series of that era is noted as the "Hugh Hoands" call. I believe the call was on Scotty Pippen of the Bulls at the end of the game.
I do not think we can compare what we do whether you officiate football, basketball or baseball to the PRO level.
The PRO Game is about BIG TIME money - PERIOD. My gut tells me if Joey Crawford "dumped" Joe Smo who hardly sees action, it would have been a non issue, but it was Tim Duncan.
The same would be true of any Official who throws out a star player.
Hopefully after Commissioner Stern is finished with the investigation we will know the REAL truth as to what happened.
See you on the "other side"
Pete Booth
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Yes, Pete, most of us certainly do have a fairly low tolerance when it comes to whining fanboys and pseudo officials. They'll never understand that it's never a matter of blindly backing up an official's call, right or wrong; it's more a matter of not tolerating the questioning of an official's integrity while questioning the call. I always thought that Don Denkinger was one of the best MLB arbiters going. Yup, he made a bad call, and he also had the terrible luck of making it at the worst possible time too. The same call in August in a nothing game basically gets ignored. Hell, I loved watching Richie Garcia work. He evolved from a young hothead into an umpire that really knew how to control tough situations. That didn't help Richie either. His legacy will always be that fan interference missed call in Yankee Stadium...unfortunately. Fanboys forget that officials in any sport are human and are going to blow one occasionally. The problem with some of the ones that come here is that they also want to assign
motives to the missed call instead of just saying "Hey, he blew one". They'll never understand that no one will ever feel worse than the guy who finds out that he really did screw up a call. I sureasheck know the feeling.
The problem here is we really can't discuss these types of situations without the "Coach Jinx' of the world showing up.