[QUOTE=Jurassic Referee]
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Originally Posted by PeteBooth
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. |
Very well put JR. After reading this thread all day, I really didn't know where I stood, or what I could learn from what Joey Crawford did. After reading your last post it reminded me that I've been in this situation, and probably so has everyone on here that loves this "avocation" and is very passionate for this game. We've been in a very heated and emotional moment during a game, and even though we are trained not to be emotional during this time, WE ARE HUMAN. Now, I have about 1/5 of the time on the court then Joey Crawford does, and I'm not dealing with no where near the stress levels that an NBA official goes through, during the game and AFTER the game. I went to my first college camp this weekend, and I pick the ACC camp to go to. The stress that I thought I went through, constantly on the run for 32 minutes in a game, 3-4 games a day, with 25 year D-I Final Four officials and NCAA Tourney officials critiquing every call or missed call takes it's toll on a person, and this was just one weekend. With today's technology, I know for a fact that the NBA officials, and D1 college officials are so closely scrutinized to the point where they have a DVD of their game waiting for them when they get back to the locker room, and their supervisor has one the next day. When you look at a corporate america job, we get evaluated yearly, and sometimes bi-annually. I would love for one of these fanboys and/or coaches to be scrutinzed on their jobs every day, like these officials are every game. Coaches gets passes or the "5-year" plan to get their program together. Officials careers can be made or lost on a call made on any given night. I guess you just put things into perspective when you deal with some of these guys who come on here to complain, and to think some of them are "us" officials. I for one would think what the hell is JR thinking, can't he see that this referee blew it?? Thanks for the post and for helping me to reflect of what I am and where I've been in my short career in this sport.
Sorry for the long post, and it probably has a ton of grammatical errors.