Thin Skinned? (Semi Long)

[Mark Dexter]

First off, Drake, let me sympathize with you for not getting assignments because you actually call technical fouls. I'm sure everyone here is familiar with how many I call.

That said, calling the T's here is not being thin-skinned, it's having cojones (with apologies to Madeline Albright). Just realize that losing players/coaches/fans are not in their right mind. About 2 weeks ago, I forfeited an indoor soccer semi-final tournament game. I was working the game alone, had ejected three players on one team (this was in a 5 on 5 game), and had a near riot on my hands on the crowd, so I called the game (of course, the losing team was well behind at the time). As I was talking with my supervisor about the game, one of the players came up to me and said "You can't call a game because your feelings are hurt." Obviously, that was a load of you know what and this coach's wife's comment was as well.