I Screwed Up.....

[cbfoulds]

Originally posted by akalsey
Doesn't the coach bear some responsibility here as well? If he knew the rule to begin with, he wouldn't have asked. It's not your job on the field to interpret rules for the coaches so they can decide who gets to play.

akalsey:
Kinda depends when & what coach asked, doesn't it?

DC: "Do I have any conferences left?"
PU: Sure, you get 2 per inning, you haven't used any."
DC: Crosses foul line going to mound. Conference. Leaves w/o replacing F1.
OffC: Wait a minute! He's used all his conferences, he has to pull that pitcher, or I'm protesting! [F1 has been blowin' it by them all game]
PU: after checking Lineup card & remembering this ain't an OBR game - "Oops!"

Not piling on tmp: but it IS part of our job to correctly interpret/inform participants on applicable rules when they ask.

That said: tmp, if this guy is a long-time friend of the family/ knows you from way back: is he likely to hold a one-time brain fart against you in a totally different sport? I mean, if he's a supervisor/evaluator for tall-people ball, he knows if you are prone to rules goofs in that sport [which maybe is your "main" sport?], right?

If he's a major jerk, he might hold it against you, but I'm guessing/ hoping that he'll make his decisions in BkB season based on your performance in that sport.

Forget trying to do anything more to "make up" for your already-admitted error. Anything further at this point makes you look like a desperate, fawning suck-up; which I would expect to be a bigger barrier to a college schedule than a brain fart while officiating a different sport.

[Edited by cbfoulds on Apr 12th, 2005 at 04:10 PM]