Ralph Nader and game 6

[Mark Padgett]

I was in a meeting this morning with a friend who is also a girls varsity HS coach at a small private school. I told him about Juulie having to work two JV boys games alone. He was very empathetic and said that he has been called into action a few times to help out reffing when someone didn't show up.

He's a pretty even tempered guy but he said that within the first two minutes of some of those games, he wanted to just stuff his fist in the mouth of some clowns in the stands.

He told me that he thinks officiating is the toughest job in sports - next to hitting a thrown ball with a bat and stopping a 100 mph slap shot.