[tomegun]

I have a real love for this game. It eats me up when I see people go out on the court without caring about what they are doing.

We are at the end of a game tonight and the home team is winning by 20+. A big kid on the visitor's team goes up for an alley-oop and it hammered. One of my partners has been asleep at the wheel all night. I come out with a late whistle and the player that committed the foul has fouled out. He is pissed and tells me I suck on his way out. Whack! All of this could have been avoided with some game awareness. The vistors are getting killed, but a foul should be called regardless. We talk about it in the locker room and my other partner admits there was some contact and he could of called it too. He says "we" were trying to get it done and had let some other things go. Huh? I was calling the game until the end.

Part two. Last night I had a college game in New Orleans which is about a hour and fifteen to an hour and thirty away. I had to meet one of my partners at 4:30. I got home at 10:30. Today, I had a double-header that was literally 3-5 minutes from my house. I was supposed to be there at 5 and got home at 10pm. The college game took up an additional hour of my time, was twice the pay, almost half the beating on my body and 10 times as fun. Oh, and yesterday we all really wanted to do a good job - I really question that about one of my partners tonight.