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Old Wed May 15, 2013, 03:42pm
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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn View Post
Oh dear. I'm kind of afraid to comment given that you think I've been picking on you. I'm not... but this one is not just wrong, but scary wrong.

A) that's not interference.
B) that's not a DDB (or any kind of DB for that matter).
Here's my humble opinion on this.

I started out posting on the basketball side about 10 years ago. I was very much interested in learning how to do it the right way.

I had lots of great ideas, interpretations of rules, and why my way was better.

They cured me of all that, with a not so gentle hand.

Getting called out on a board is nothing compared to running around out on the fields and knowing you don't know jack.

He'll stay around and learn, or he won't.

There's nothing you can say or do to push people in either direction.

I believe it takes a person with certain innate characteristics to use these boards.

One is the realization that you're not perfect.

Another one would be the ability to risk being wrong, goes hand in hand with the above.

Also is to have a little bit of glutton for punishment.

Because of this board, in my little piss ant part of the world, I'm considered a solid softball veteran . My Fed schedule this week bears this out

He hasn't left, so there's hope he'll stay and learn how to do things correctly.
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