Question for the baseball guys

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I see you finally learned how to spell "author", but you can't correctly spell "disclaimer", plus - your signature of "Views expressed here or the opinion of the author" makes no sense grammatically.

If it makes no sense to you, perhaps you need to go back and take a refresher grammar class or understanding English because the statement could not be any clearer, minus the typo's of course. Damn keyboard....

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Old School

If it makes no sense to you, perhaps you need to go back and take a refresher grammar class or understanding English because the statement could not be any clearer, minus the typo's of course. Damn keyboard....Views expressed here or the opinion of the author

Look Old Drool, I'll match my spelling and grammar skills against yours any day of the week. Not only does your signature, shown above in red, not make any sense grammatically ("or" should be "are"), but "typos" (plural) SHOULDN'T HAVE AN APOSTROPHE!!!

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Look Old Drool, I'll match my spelling and grammar skills against yours any day of the week. Not only does your signature, shown above in red, not make any sense grammatically ("or" should be "are"), but "typos" (plural) SHOULDN'T HAVE AN APOSTROPHE!!!

Oh for goodness sake, you are right, this is so screwed up. Damn keyboard. Don't quite know what you mean by the apostrophe but this is bad. Between my keyboard and horrible grammar, I don't stand a chance. I should just give up but I'm too stupid to do that.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Old School

Oh for goodness sake, you are right, this is so screwed up. Damn keyboard. Don't quite know what you mean by the apostrophe but this is bad. Between my keyboard and horrible grammar, I don't stand a chance. I should just give up but I'm too stupid to do that.

I declared a truce in another thread, but since you stated you didn't understand my apostrophe comment, I'll explain - not in a mean spirited fashion, but just for clarification, OK?

There is a difference between plural and possessive when it comes to using apostrophes. If you notice, I just used a plural (apostrophes) without using an apostrophe. That's because it's plural, not possessive or a contraction, like the two words, "That's" and "it's" are in this sentence.

In general, you use apostrophes when the word ending in "s" is possessive (i.e.: "Bob's" wiener) or is a contraction (i.e.: "it's" really big, meaning it is really big) but not when the word is just plural, such as in "wieners".

When a word naturally ends in "s" and you want to make it possessive, you put the apostrophe after the "s", which is really kind of weird.

I hope all that is correct, since I don't use a disclaimer in my signature. Although part of my job in marketing is to write copy, I haven't been to an English class since I graduated college back before dirt was invented.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I declared a truce in another thread, but since you stated you didn't understand my apostrophe comment, I'll explain - not in a mean spirited fashion, but just for clarification, OK?

There is a difference between plural and possessive when it comes to using apostrophes. If you notice, I just used a plural (apostrophes) without using an apostrophe. That's because it's plural, not possessive or a contraction, like the two words, "That's" and "it's" are in this sentence.

In general, you use apostrophes when the word ending in "s" is possessive (i.e.: "Bob's" wiener) or is a contraction (i.e.: "it's" really big, meaning it is really big) but not when the word is just plural, such as in "wieners".

When a word naturally ends in "s" and you want to make it possessive, you put the apostrophe after the "s", which is really kind of weird.

I hope all that is correct, since I don't use a disclaimer in my signature. Although part of my job in marketing is to write copy, I haven't been to an English class since I graduated college back before dirt was invented.

Mark:

I thought Bob had bought a ball park frank and a beer at the game?

MTD, Sr.

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I declared a truce in another thread, but since you stated you didn't understand my apostrophe comment, I'll explain - not in a mean spirited fashion, but just for clarification, OK?

There is a difference between plural and possessive when it comes to using apostrophes. If you notice, I just used a plural (apostrophes) without using an apostrophe. That's because it's plural, not possessive or a contraction, like the two words, "That's" and "it's" are in this sentence.

In general, you use apostrophes when the word ending in "s" is possessive (i.e.: "Bob's" wiener) or is a contraction (i.e.: "it's" really big, meaning it is really big) but not when the word is just plural, such as in "wieners".

When a word naturally ends in "s" and you want to make it possessive, you put the apostrophe after the "s", which is really kind of weird.

I hope all that is correct, since I don't use a disclaimer in my signature. Although part of my job in marketing is to write copy, I haven't been to an English class since I graduated college back before dirt was invented.

Thanks for the English lesson Mark. Now I remember, I was never any good at this subject. Now I remember why!

[johnny1784]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Look Old Drool, I'll match my spelling and grammar skills against yours any day of the week. Not only does your signature, shown above in red, not make any sense grammatically ("or" should be "are"), but "typos" (plural) SHOULDN'T HAVE AN APOSTROPHE!!!

Is this a feud between loving officials?

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by johnny1784

Is this a feud between loving officials?

Seems pretty doubtful. I mean, we know Padgett's an official. But Old Stool, that seems pretty doubtful.

[JRutledge]

I cannot believe you guys are arguing baseball rules with someone that does not understand basketball rules. The rules have been given, leave it at that.

Peace

[CoachP]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I cannot believe you guys are arguing baseball rules.....

Peace

In a basketball forum.

[Old School]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I cannot believe you guys are arguing baseball rules with someone that does not understand basketball rules. The rules have been given, leave it at that.

Peace

We are not arguing, we are having a discussion on baseball rules. If you lighten up, you might learn something. I know I have. I also know i kind of miss umping baseball and talking about some of the different scenarios. It's kind of refreshing talking to someone who knows the rules and is also a basketball official. You need to get over yourself, the world is not about you. I see you didn't have anything negative to say about the thread I started on USA Men's FIBA Officiating that was hyjacked by constant insults to the French. Look at the Off-Topic Baseball thread, it's almost over a 1000 posts on the basketball forum, you got nothing negative to say about that either, but you can come out here and insult me because I'm talking about baseball.

Some peoples kids.....