Looking forward to this one

[Mark Padgett]

Some of you may remember a post a while ago in which I related the story of a parent who was ejected from one of our local kids rec games for yelling at the refs and telling them they were "biased". The ejection brings with it an automatic one game suspension. Well, he "served" his suspension last week and guess what? I just got my schedule for this Saturday and I have his kid's game. Gee - do you think I'm going to take any crap from this guy?

Ah, the joys of kids rec leagues.

[grunewar]

Now Mark, you're not going to look for trouble are you?

[jdmara]

Originally Posted by grunewar

Now Mark, you're not going to look for trouble are you?

Trouble looks for Mark

Let us know how it goes Mark

-Josh

[26 Year Gap]

[Mark Padgett]

I found out last night who my partner is for this game (and my other two games tomorrow morning). It's an "older guy" (and for me to think of someone as an "older guy" means he's really, really old ) who still wears a collared shirt. In fact, I think it has a chest pocket. Since he's a computer programming geek, I think he also uses a pocket protector (just kidding there). He wears black rimmed thick glasses and rolls tape around the nose piece (not kidding there). He has an "around the neck" lanyard and a plastic pea whistle. At least the whistle is black.

Having said all that, he's really a pretty good official and a nice guy. His mechanics and communication level are both great. He's got a decent sense of humor but he does have one fault. He takes way too much crap from coaches and players. So, whenever I work with him (which isn't too often, by the way), it's a real contrast in styles when it comes to that stuff.

This is going to be even more fun than I first thought.