[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by umpjm (nee coachjm)

mike,

the thing that "cracks me up" about the fhsaa definition is that, while what they describe i would certainly consider "unsportsmanlike", my threshold for "unsportsmanlike" is way below "hateful and malicious".

Heck, i've dumped a kid for "drawing a line" on me, though i considered it neither hateful nor malicious - just inappropriately disrespectful.

Plus, how the hell do i know what one or another hs principal deems an "unacceptable act"? Does it vary from a fundamentalist christian school, to a parochial school, to a public school?

Profanity (g*d d@mn!) gets the hook, but obscenity (f#ck y*u!) and vulgarity (you're bull$hit!) don't?!?!?

I know, i'm just having a little fun with what they wrote. While i believe it "well intentioned", i am singularly unimpressed.

It's really what the umpire judges an unacceptable act, informed by the criteria defined in the fed book.

Jm

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