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Old Thu Apr 03, 2014, 12:09pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by RKBUmp View Post
I didnt come up with the moto, I just have to repeat it at every game. From what I have been told, before my time the umpires actually had to hand out victory with honor cards to the coaches and read the entire verbage.
Doesn't make any difference, it isn't and shouldn't be the umpire making such statements. If the coaches don't know this and are not capable of teaching their players to understand it, they shouldn't be associated with the team or game.
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