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Old Sun Aug 12, 2007, 12:00am
Stat-Man Stat-Man is offline
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Thank Goodness Summer Ball is almost over

I arrived early for our pro games and the TD asked me if I'd score the 2 college league games that were scheduled prior. Boy was that a big mistake.

In game one, team A has just 5 players and one fouls out. Coach is going ballistic accusing me of cheating (never mind I had no idea who was even playing since i took over mid-game) and his player only has 2 fouls. *shrugs* Not the end of the world.

Game 2, we have a team where half the player's numbers have fallen off the jersies. So with 3 "no-number" players on the foul, recording fould is a guessing game the coaches don't like. When they claim the player I gave the foul to was on the bench, i let him know emphatically I was recording the foul as called, case closed. they didn't like that, but it was better than what I wanted to say - Go put some (expletive) numbers on your jersies and we won't have to play this charade.

Now I see why some of you don't like summer rec ball from the striped perspective.
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