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[His High Holiness]

Originally posted by Jurassic Referee



Now, I'm still waiting for you to tell me WHY the FED and NCAA rules citations that I posted ARE wrong, and exactly HOW one basketball official CAN over rule another basketball official, as YOU stated. I await that explanation. Not your resume, Windy. To be quite honest, resumes always seem to be a little suspect when their author obviously doesn't know what he's talking about. Please try to keep away from your usual slurs that you also like to insert in place of a logical argument. They really don't serve much of a purpose either. Just give me a simple explanation that will tell me why the rules that I cited are wrong, and you are right, Windy.

Ok, I don't know anything about basketball officiating but I just read the posts in question. Despite your lies, Windy did not say anything about one basketball referee overruling another. What he said was, two referees got together and talked and the call was changed. Since you appear to be unable to get that point, let me explain how that works in baseball. One official does not overrule another in baseball either, but here is how it works:

I see my partner tank a call and I get together with him. Most likely, he changes the call, but if he refuses and I am the big dog, I say quietly to him:

"You either change that call or this will be the last game you work at this level." Unless he is an idiot, and wants to retire, HE changes the call. Notice, that I did not change the call, HE did. Umpires don't change other umpires calls, we put pressure on our partners to change them. It's all a matter of semantics.

Which is exactly what Windy said. The call got changed. Who knows what transpired between the officials. One could have reminded the other about his position in the big scheme of things.

Once again for the reading challenged, Windy did not say that one official overruled the other. He said that the call got changed after a conference. He does not know what pressure one official placed on another. Neither do you.

This discussion reminds me of the umpire from down under (who diddles with sheep) who insisted that other umpires never changed calls. He went through exactly the same tortured logic as you to insist that calls cannot be changed by other umpires.

OK, they can't. I admit that by the rules, I cannot change another umpires calls. But I can put enough pressure on him to make him "voluntarily" change his own call.

And that is what Windy was saying. And you would have recognized that if you weren't joined at the hip with the moron from Illinois.

Rut, do you think that I am WindyCityBlue. Is that one of my aliases? Am I fronting as WCB in order to make it appear as if I have support. That is your logic, isn't it?

Peter

[Edited by His High Holiness on Jun 30th, 2004 at 06:52 PM]