Summer Ball - all this fun and I get paid too?

[Jurassic Referee]

Every official sets their own personal limits as to what they will take and let go. As with everything else we do, the key is to be consistent. If the players and coaches know what they can do or not do during a game, they have no valid complaints at all if they get nailed for crossing an official's line. It's up to the coaches and player to adjust to the individual official's standards when it comes to sportsmanship-related situations, not vice-versa.

And there's different ways to control a game also while getting the same result. If the journey ends well, who cares how you got there. I was always on the hard-azz side of the spectrum but if someone at the other end still had the game under control and being played fairly with minimal displays of boolsh!t, who can say for sure that my way was really better?

JMO.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

who can say for sure that my way was really better?

I don't even know who you are anymore.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I don't even know who you are anymore.

Why?

I'm not talking about the no-brainer(to me) "T"s like swearing, throwing the ball away, bouncing it up to the rafters, Italian salutes, pulling a jersey over a face, putting on an elaborate show, etc. With those, you better take care of bidness. I'm talking about the annoying little crap like what's being discussed in this particular thread. There's a heckuva difference there imo.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Why?

I'm not talking about the no-brainer(to me) "T"s like swearing, throwing the ball away, bouncing it up to the rafters, Italian salutes, pulling a jersey over a face, putting on an elaborate show, etc. With those, you better take care of bidness. I'm talking about the annoying little crap like what's being discussed in this particular thread. There's a heckuva difference there imo.

Nah, I agree with you. But you're nothing like your caricature.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Nah, I agree with you. But you're nothing like your caricature.

[rockyroad]

Hmmmmm...I always pictured him more like Jeff Dunham's Walter.

http://www.dynintel.com/pics/jeff_dunham_walter.gif

[Adam]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

Hmmmmm...I always pictured him more like Jeff Dunham's Walter.

http://www.dynintel.com/pics/jeff_dunham_walter.gif

So who's Ahmed?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

But you're nothing like your caricature.

Nothing at all has changed over the years.



Same ol' kinder, gentler, loveable JR......

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Every official sets their own personal limits as to what they will take and let go.

Which is why, before a game when a coach asks, "How are you?", my answer is always "Cranky". Gives them a heads up.