My Story
My name is Daniel. I was the announcer of this high school basketball incident. And this is a little more detailed about what happened... ( I won't use names of players, but I'll use school names.)
Mira Mesa Lady Marauders vs. Kearny Lady Komets ; January 24th, 2003. It was a pretty evenly matched game throughout. However, with about 3 minutes left in the first quarter, the score table has to call an official timeout.... The 30-second shot clock is not working. It reset back to 30 but it won't go back down. We have to use a stopwatch for the remainder of the period, which was a drag because I had to, according to the head referee, speak into the PA in multiples of 5 until 10 and then count down to zero. Then, during that stopwatch tenure, there was a travel called on Kearny.
Now, me being the announcer and that the call was against the visiting team and that we had a pretty good crowd on hand, when i say "ToooooooOOOOOO many steps!!", it usually incites the crowd. Being the situation we were in, the ref whistled and yelled from the far sideline to not say that because "It gets confusing when i say "too" and he thinks I'm counting down to "two".
He was way out of line. Then, not even a minute later, I say something else that is not even close to derogatory or insulting to either team or to the refs and the ref stops the game and comes over to the table and "puts his foot down" and tells me to call the game as if I was neutral. What the heck is this guy talkin about? And then, he left the table as if he just got his way. I still went on with my announcing routine and made calls a little more enthusiatically for the home team. That's kind of what all announcers do.
What do you think? Tell me anything. Or if anybody has any constructive criticism. please tell me. thanx for reading.
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