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Old Wed Jun 06, 2012, 02:01pm
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Classes begin in the fall come out & get your certification, then YOU sir, can call all the marginal travels you like in YOUR ballgames
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Old Wed Jun 06, 2012, 02:07pm
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Real season, I agree... Summer time, I get my point across.
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Old Wed Jun 06, 2012, 03:26pm
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Real season, I agree... Summer time, I get my point across.
When addressing a fan? The season, it matters not.
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Old Wed Jun 06, 2012, 03:38pm
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When addressing a fan? The season, it matters not.
I hear you BNR. I'm a 4-6 nights a week, Jan-Dec kinda guy & I deal with much more BS in the off-season for less pay... so I do what I do.
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Old Wed Jun 06, 2012, 03:48pm
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I hear you BNR. I'm a 4-6 nights a week, Jan-Dec kinda guy & I deal with much more BS in the off-season for less pay... so I do what I do.
Personally, I'm not discussing much with fans, winter/summer/spring/or fall. In fact folks must detect the a-hole in me b/c it's been about 7-8 years since I've had a fan come up to me after any type of game.

Conversations with fans are always better when they run into you at Applebee's or TGI Friday's
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Personally, I'm not discussing much with fans, winter/summer/spring/or fall. In fact folks must detect the a-hole in me b/c it's been about 7-8 years since I've had a fan come up to me after any type of game.

Conversations with fans are always better when they run into you at Applebee's or TGI Friday's
I respect your discipline!
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Old Wed Jun 06, 2012, 03:57pm
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I respect your discipline!
Learned long ago that fans really don't give a damn about our rationale/thought process/rules/etc. They just want to vent and/or blame. This lesson was taught to me by a co-worker/friend who is an avid HS sports fan. He'd have D1 officials working his games and I'd still hear how terrible they were.
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Old Wed Jun 06, 2012, 03:34pm
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Real season, I agree... Summer time, I get my point across.
I was tempted, but I would have been more likely to use sarcasm.

"So, how long have you officiated?"

Or I could have been sincere,

"Do you really think I need a stranger to come up to me in order to get me to care more about what I'm doing?"
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Old Wed Jun 06, 2012, 03:41pm
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"Do you really think I need a stranger to come up to me in order to get me to care more about what I'm doing?"
"Go stage your intervention elsewhere."
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Old Wed Jun 06, 2012, 03:46pm
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"Go stage your intervention elsewhere."
I was really tempted to light him up, explaining to him that I was driving 40 miles round trip to work two games for $28, missing another night with my kids. I'm doing these games to get better at what I do.

But, instead, I said, "Just go."
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Old Wed Jun 06, 2012, 03:55pm
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I was really tempted to light him up, explaining to him that I was driving 40 miles round trip to work two games for $28, missing another night with my kids. I'm doing these games to get better at what I do.

But, instead, I said, "Just go."
I know that feeling! When I was working games while my daughter was a newborn, I was ready to tell a few fans to stuff it mainly because I was running on no sleep.
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I was working games while my daughter was a newborn
I T'd up my daughter when she was seven hours old. 20 years later I still can't call that second one.
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