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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
As for your insistence that "officials decide the game,"
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Originally Posted by bainsey
I didn't say that, either.
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You're right, my bad. You wrote:
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Originally Posted by bainsey
In a close game, the calls we make in the first three quarters can affect the game's outcome every bit as the last one. If we do our jobs correctly, then people have less to complain about legitimately, but whether we're right or wrong, our actions and reactions affect a game's outcome. To say that we have no effect -- or suggest that we should have no effect -- is very myopic.
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Semantically different from what you actually wrote, but either way you're putting the emphasis on the officials where it doesn't belong.