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Old Thu Jan 15, 2009, 11:23am
Amesman Amesman is offline
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Originally Posted by slow whistle View Post
Yeah even the assignor gets in on the fun - I hope he didn't go to bed before he got the call that night and first read about it when he saw his name in the morning paper! Just seems that for $55 they didn't sign up for having their names splashed across the sports section...but nobody forces us to take the floor I suppose...
... now I didn't say the reporter wasn't handing out lighters seeing if anybody WOULD light a few torches. But, as long as it's restrained and balanced, that IS his job, we'll be told. (In all fairness, "splashed" is probably a bit strong to describe how the officials were named since it was well into the article [but I know what you mean]. Everyone has a different tolerance level to media coverage.)

Another way to look at it is that by naming names, they can be rightfully defended as high-quality, class acts if needed (or then again, maybe not ...).
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