What are your pet peeves about other officials?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

All I really ask is that you communicate with me and let me know what is going on from your mechanics or what you called.

Last night. Girls varsity. Visitor undefeated, and ranked. Home has only lost a few games. Place is rocking.

Visitor on offense. Home on defense. Partner is lead, sounds his whistle, puts a fist up in the air, signals a holding foul, points to the closest spot on the endline, and heads to the reporting area. No shot attempted. We're not in the bonus for either team. The place is rocking, so I don't hear his call.

I switch and move to the endline, where a Visitor is waiting, out of bounds, for me to give her the ball for a throwin, and I'm ready to oblige, just as soon as my partner finishes his reporting, and turns around.

He turns around and realizes that I'm about to hand the ball to the wrong team, and stops my throwin administration.

Now I look like a fool. To the players, the coaches, the fans, and the two subvarsity officials sitting in the stands.

A bird dog signal, which I know is optional, would have helped. A team control foul "punch", which is not optional, and should have been signaled, would have definitely prevented this, either made by him at the site of the foul, or at the table. Not only did I not know who the foul was on, the girls who were near him didn't know either.

There are reasons why we have approved mechanics, and approved signals, and some are not optional, and these must be used to achieve good communication between the officials.

Yeah. You're right. I'm pissed. I've got a rare Friday night off. What's on television tonight? I need a distraction, and a cold Schaefer, to calm me down.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

What's on television tonight? I need a distraction, and a cold Schaefer, to calm me down.

Law & Order reruns on TNT, of course. My DVR is already set.

[amusedofficial]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

a cold Schaefer, to calm me down.

One does not have "a cold Schafer." One is "having more than one."

Noting a prior reference hereabouts to a post game porter, I report that Narragansett Porter has returned, good beverage, popular prices.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by amusedofficial

One does not have "a cold Schafer." One is "having more than one."

My vote for obsucre reference of the day! Wow!

"Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one" is one of New York's most famous jingles. Schaefer closed its doors in the 1970s, ending the great history of Brooklyn's breweries.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by grunewar

My vote for obsucre reference of the day! Wow!

"Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one" is one of New York's most famous jingles. Schaefer closed its doors in the 1970s, ending the great history of Brooklyn's breweries.

[jeschmit]

My pet peeve would probably be have to be when a full timeout is requested and granted, the calling official reports the full timeout with the double foul signal. That irks at me for some reason...

Also, when an official uses the shot clock violation signal for "my time."

I'm sure there are more that I have, but those two come to mind currently.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by grunewar

closed its doors in the 1970s, ending the great history of Brooklyn's breweries.

Then why can I still purchase a six pack at my local adult beverage super store?

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Then why can I still purchase a six pack at my local adult beverage super store?

Does it taste the same as the 70's? Some of my fondest memories are of stealing my old man's rusty cans of Schaefer from the basement when I was 16...

[amusedofficial]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

Does it taste the same as the 70's? Some of my fondest memories are of stealing my old man's rusty cans of Schaefer from the basement when I was 16...

You missed one

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

Does it taste the same as the 70's? Some of my fondest memories are of stealing my old man's rusty cans of Schaefer from the basement when I was 16.

I actually switched to Schaefer after my Dad passed away. He was a regular Schaefer drinker, and when I was little, he always used to let me take a sip. After he died, I spotted some Schaefer in my local package store, that's what we call them here in the Land Of Steady Habits (of course, being in the Land of Steady Habits, I didn't spot these six packs on a Sunday). I didn't think that it was sold anymore, not seeing any of those those great Schaefer commercials on television during sporting events for several years, but there those six packs were, sitting on the shelf. They say that your sense of smell connects directly to the memory part of your brain. They're right. Every time I open up, and drink, a cold one, I think fondly of my Dad, especially after mowing the lawn on a hot summer day, and sitting, and relaxing, on the front stoop.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I actually switched to Schaefer after my Dad passed away. He was a regular Schaefer drinker, and when I was little, he always used to let me take a sip. After he died, I spotted some Schaefer in my local package store, that's what we call them here in the Land Of Steady Habits (of course, being in the Land of Steady Habits, I didn't spot these six packs on a Sunday). I didn't think that it was sold anymore, not seeing any of those those great Schaefer commercials on television during sporting events for several years, but there those six packs were, sitting on the shelf. They say that your sense of smell connects directly to the memory part of your brain. They're right. Every time I open up, and drink, a cold one, I think fondly of my Dad, especially after mowing the lawn on a hot sumer day, and sitting, and relaxing, on the front stoop.

[amusedofficial]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Then why can I still purchase a six pack at my local adult beverage super store?

Because Schaefer was sold to Stroh's which was bought out by Pabst which has it contract-brewed by Miller which entered a joint venture with Coors which had merged with Molson.

The best hoop analogy would be the ownership history of the Memphis Tams.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Then why can I still purchase a six pack at my local adult beverage super store?

Did you check the expiration date on that can?

Oh, sorry, no one heard of expiration dates back in the day.......

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by grunewar

Did you check the expiration date on that can?

... too much rust.

[Cobra]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Now I look like a fool. To the players, the coaches, the fans, and the two subvarsity officials sitting in the stands.

No, your partner looks like a fool. He is the one who was unable to use the proper mechanics to communicate who the foul was on.