Deferring to parnter vs the rookie treatment

[bigzilla]

I should make it clear that he wasn't fixing the game. Basically, it was a ref who was there to call the game between A and B, and was discussing how A's coaches how they would match up with C, who they only played if they beat B. The coaches, to me, were basically buttering him up with comments about how great he had been in their game the night before. To me, that looks bad.

As to why I didn't just have it out with him at first, the pregame came to an abrupt and unusual end, which is sort of described in my second post on page 1 of this thread, and which certain viewers had an appreciation for no more details than given! Rest assured that it was more bizarre than described in that post, and one of my partners often requests that I describe it in detail to other parnters, just to hear the howls.