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Originally Posted by tjchamp
This was 8th grade basketball, parents doing the books.
Every foul that was made against his team, he had a comment for me. After about 3 reports, I told him that he needed to keep his comments to himself, that he was an official and needed to keep his bias to himself. After a couple more incidents, I asked if any of the parents on the sideline would be kind enough to relieve the current score keeper. One was nice enough to agree to help.
The old score keeper gets out of his chair and starts heading over to sit down to watch the game. But he blurts out something to the effect of "If you thought I was making comments before, wait till you hear me now." At which point I gave him the boot.
Not sure if this was handled the best, but it sure made the rest of the game easier.
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I was really close to doing this last season. The guy at the table was very vocal, and shook his head every time I reported a foul on his team. I didn't hear any more from him after I loudly said "if I hear any more from you we can find someone else to keep score (scorebook)." Actually, he responded to that with "I only have a few minutes left anyhow". I should have run him then. I was just thankful he wasn't doing the next game I guess.