Actualy, Warren, I'm getting rather tired of your constant lies (yes, Warren, that means that I am now calling you a liar) when you purposely and intentionally mistate what I have said in order to support your weak argument. This is not the first time you have lowered yourself to that level.
You state:
GET YOUR OWN CALLS! We've been chanting that mantra to BFair throughout the debate, but he still wants to see umpires ignoring 9.02(a) and going for help anytime a coach, manager or player "appeals" a judgement decision.
Warren, I challenge you to show where in this thread or any thread I've stated or implied that an umpire should be
"going for help anytime a coach, manager or player "appeals" a judgement decision."
This is a lie, Warren, and you are smart enough to know this is not what I have stated.
Provide your proof of this statement, Warren,
else all will know it is a lie......
With your lies, Warren,
you attempt to portray, that which is not so.
You do that purposely. What I've indicated is that it is not illegal to do so. That disagrees with your opinion---an opinion for which you have not yet provided a single statment from the rules to support you. All you have is "your interpretation" that it is illegal which is based on your twisting of words from the rules. Yet arriving at your interpretation you
continually ignore the actual statements provided in the rulebooks, rulings, and examples made by OBR, NCAA, PBUC, and Fed indicating that not only is it not illegal, it is desirable. An official should put his perceived dignity secondary to his need to get the call right when he's made an obviously blown call. If you want me to provide the writings to support that, Warren, I will. You know they are there, and there's no need for redundancy.
Advocate your opinion if you so desire, Warren, but cease from stooping to your twisted lies to denigrate and open to ridicule those who feel differently than you, and those who, unlike yourself, do not ignore the directives and examples provided by the rulesmakers.
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