My turn to vent - but there's a 3 second call question in here somewhere.

[Todd VandenAkker]

Originally posted by Mark Padgett
At first I thought he was referring to the fact that there was already a wide point spread and that I should cut team B some slack - and that's a different arguement. In fact, I had yelled at the kid to get out of the lane, and only made the call when he didn't (yes - he heard me), and my count had reached about 6.

Mark, the above statement you made is the key, and that's what I was waiting for you to say. I DO believe the wide point spread is relevant in deciding to make the call or not, but I suspect that's why you were yelling to the kid to get out and finally made the call after 6 seconds when he gave you no choice. I agree wholeheartedly with how you handled that, and would do the same myself.