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Originally posted by Nevadaref
[BWith the comment about this happening in last 30 seconds, I was trying to draw a distinction between what I felt was a relatively minor oversight on the part of the trail official and what could be a gamebreaker if the trail misses it?
The main reason that I posted this thread was to get some feedback about this vets overbearing attitude, and my response to it, which in this case caused me to ignore this violation.
[Edited by Nevadaref on Dec 20th, 2002 at 05:46 AM] [/B]
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OK...two things: 1)Don't assume that making/not making a call in the first quarter is not a "game-breaking" situation...things that happen early in the game can have a definite impact on what comes later...so if you wouldn't make a call in the first quarter - don't make it in the fourth...if it's something that needs to be called late in the game, call it when it happens early in the game also...
2)When working with this type of official, you can do two things...you can pull your head in and not call anything in "his" area in order to not cause any waves...or you can have the attitude that "this is MY game" and call what you sincerely feel needs to be called and deal with the fall-out after the game...personally, I follow choice two and have had some problems afterward, but always been able to work them out...my philosophy is to protect the integrity of the game first, and integrity of the partners after that...