Partner takes care of jerk fanboy

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

And my girls are getting hammered?"

"Really coach? Then you shouldn't allow alcohol in the huddle. Especially not to minors."

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by fiasco

I don't care that you don't care.

So there.

Neener, neener, neener.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

This is why the rules, and I believe proper mchanics, only require us to inform the coach when he has used up all of his time outs.

Ah, nonsense. I don't "avoid" anything. We always extend the same courtesies -- telling an assistant when there's one timeout left, letting them know where a ball will be inbounded, etc. to ALL teams.

Guy wants to act like a jerk, that's his choice. Then the ball's in my court. I may ignore the guy, I may tell him to stop whining. It depends on the situation.

I won't whack him in his own huddle, though. I know how that would look.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

"Really coach? Then you shouldn't allow alcohol in the huddle. Especially not to minors."

Ooh. Someone with no sense of humor (humour under FEEBLE rules) will be along soon to tsk-tsk you.

[CoachP]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

That's just precious. A coach lecturing us about the virtues of just ignoring the jerks. You'll have to excuse me if I seem a little jaded on this subject. But when it comes to youth, rec league basketball, my experience is that most of the jerks are found standing in the coaches box. Ranting. Raving. Waving their arms and stomping. And if you ignore that jerk, the crowd starts feeding off his bad behavior, and so do the players.

But hey, I'll sleep better now knowing that as long as I don't act like a jerk, everybody will respect me for just ignoring him.

Get a life.

Missing the point there.

The OP has the official, AT THE BREAK, standing on his soapbox, with an audience, berating a fan. That is (IMO) wrong.

When you see me "Ranting. Raving. Waving their arms and stomping...." then you may tell me to get a life.

[Bearfanmike20]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

I give up? What does??

Bgtg19 has a very valid point. While most of us chuckle at stories like this one, it ain't the way to handle the situation. All it does is lower us to the same level as the idiot causing problems in the first place.

I agree.. we are not there to be the parents of the fans.. although sometimes they need it... although deserved it wasn't nessesary, and the only purpose it served was to boost the ego of the official.

Funny YES...

but I understand too that it probably wasn't the right thing to do in retrospect.

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Bearfanmike20

I agree.. we are not there to be the parents of the fans.. although sometimes they need it... although deserved it wasn't nessesary, and the only purpose it served was to boost the ego of the official.

Funny YES...

but I understand too that it probably wasn't the right thing to do in retrospect.

Seems to me it served its intended purpose: To shut the jerk up.

Just sayin'

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Bearfanmike20

but I understand too that it probably wasn't the right thing to do in retrospect.

We weren't in retrospect. We were in Oregon. "Things look different here." (at one time, that was proposed to be our state motto) Things really are different here. We actually have an "official state rock song". It's Louie, Louie (which was written in Oregon). And no, I am not making this up.

[BillyMac]

Connecticut State Symbols:

Song "Yankee Doodle"
State Motto - "Qui transtulit sustinet" - He who transplanted still sustains
Animal Sperm Whale During the 1800's Connecticut ranked second only to Massachusetts in the American whaling industry
Bird American Robin
Fish American Shad
Cantata "Nutmeg" by Stanley L. Ralph
Composer Charles Edward Ives He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his Third Symphony
Flower Mountain Laurel
Folk Dance Square Dance
Fossil Eubrontes Giganteus three toed fossil footprint of Dilophosarus
Hero Nathan Hale "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Heroine Prudence Crandall Established the first academy for African-American women in New England.
Insect Praying Mantis
Mineral Garnet (Almandine garnet) Connecticut is one of the finest sources in the world of the almandine garnet
Shellfish Eastern Oyster During the 1890's, Connecticut held the distinction of having the largest fleet of oyster steamers in the world
Ship USS Nautilus Built by Connecticut craftsmen and women, USS Nautilus was the world's first nuclear powered submarine
Tree White Oak Captain Joseph Wadsworth is credited with having removed and secreted the Charter in the majestic white oak

[Mark Padgett]

Still got all of ya' beat: Oregon's Official State Kneebreaker - Tonya Harding.