This might help:

http://www.buy.com/retail/computers/...ry.asp?loc=433 [/B][/QUOTE]
y?

YEA!! I'm not the dense one this time!!!

y not?
d'ja git it?
attaboy.
You stay try, too.

Wanna bet?:D

Let me help you out here,Chuckie. Slappy,who is usually an immaculate and accurate speller,left the "y" out of "mahem"(sic) in one of his posts.Ol' JR,being kind of an antisocial a$$hole(as well as also being a general pain in the a$$),has since tried to repeatedly point that fact out to him.I would dare say that Slappy is well aware of what I've been doing,because-being Slappy-he has been doing his damndest to return the favor.

Now,don't forget to come in out of the rain!:D

[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Sep 19th, 2003 at 12:53 AM]

I love it when I can spark 3 pages on this board and it's not even bball season! I purposely worded that post to incite members and elicit some responses.
Please don't misunderstand my position, since I am all for game awareness. Knowing the score, the clock, and situations in the game when TOs are likely to be called is great and I have been told by quite a few vets that I am excellent at it.
However, if a random TO request is missed at somepoint in the middle of the game because the officials' attention is directed to action on the court, I believe that responsibility falls on the team and its coach for failing to make their request recognized.

We must be careful for what we wish.

I got the "y" thing. I'm not quite as dumb as I look. But I figured that you didn't get the relevance of Danno's link. That's why I was taking a little pleasure in your question.

October issue of Referee Magazine arrived yesterday. A direct quote from Barry Mano, the Publisher of Referee magazine---"Sports officials are the worst critics of other sports officials. It is a damned shame, but there it is. There is so much of that kind of criticism around, there are times you feel ashamed to be part of the profession".

There it is? Why? B/c some writer says it? First of all, I'm not really sure that's true. Yes, officials often critique minute details that non-officials never notice. And yes, officials are notorious for using rating systems for biased reasons. But does that make us the "worst critics of other sports officials"? Hardly. Fans and coaches engage in personal attacks and virtiol that are sometimes truly despicable. I agree that officials scrutinize each call and are willing to tell another official that s/he blew the call; but we don't do that any more than fans, coaches, or media members. Every time a survey is done asking why officials stop officiating, the answers are about the fans and coaches. I don't ever remember the #1 reason in such a poll being, "My brother officials were overly critical of me!"

Second of all, even if the above is true, why did you post it in this thread? :confused:

I think we need the mix.
We do not improve while we are continually being told that we "did fine".
mick

Exactly. Got me confused,too.

But I figured that you didn't get the relevance of Danno's link. That's why I was taking a little pleasure in your question. [/B][/QUOTE]Uh,Stevie Wonder coulda seen what Slappy was trying to do.

Hence my glee at your apparent (but feigned) confusion.

okay, here is how the conversation went.

Offical- "coach, it is pretty loud out here, are you going to want a time out after the free throws?"

Me- "yes I am going to want one if the seoond shot goes in."

Official - "Okay I'll be sure to look for your signal because I won't be able to hera you."


both coaches still had to signal for the timeout, the asking was to make sure so they would look over, because neither would be able to hear.

Hey,at least I know what JFF means!

And I ain't telling ya!