My finest performance to date!

[rainmaker]

Originally posted by Mark Dexter
Just a quick tip (especially important when doing any college-related games) - never, never, never, EVER (I don't give a damn about what J. Dallas Shirley says ) say "blue ball."

Ace--

In your girls' league, this isn't much of an issue.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally posted by rainmaker

Ace--

In your girls' league, this isn't much of an issue.

Juulie - thanks for reminding me of my very own Davism. Last year, I was working a boys spring league at a facility that doesn't allow anyone to bring in basketballs from the outside. All teams must use the ones provided by the facility. At halftime of a 6th grade game, one team grabbed all the basketballs to warm up. A player from the other team came up to me and said "Isn't there some kind of 'ball quota'?"

I replied "Yeah, two per player - girls league's different."

He thought for a moment, then he "got it". He grinned and told the other players on his team. For the rest of the game, I was the "cool ref". I guess I know just how to tap into 6th grade humor.

BTW - in my summer league game I did last month with Dave, he asked me if I had any new "Padgett-isms" for him! WOW! I felt as if Albert Einstein had just asked me to correct his math homework.

[Camron Rust]

Originally posted by Mark Padgett


Juulie - thanks for reminding me of my very own Davism. Last year, I was working a boys spring league at a facility that doesn't allow anyone to bring in basketballs from the outside. All teams must use the ones provided by the facility. At halftime of a 6th grade game, one team grabbed all the basketballs to warm up. A player from the other team came up to me and said "Isn't there some kind of 'ball quota'?"

I replied "Yeah, two per player - girls league's different."

He thought for a moment, then he "got it". He grinned and told the other players on his team. For the rest of the game, I was the "cool ref". I guess I know just how to tap into 6th grade humor.

Wow, you've stepped it up a grade or two!!! Congrats!

Originally posted by Mark Padgett


BTW - in my summer league game I did last month with Dave, he asked me if I had any new "Padgett-isms" for him! WOW! I felt as if Albert Einstein had just asked me to correct his math homework.

You might find it interesting that Einstein didn't always do well in school...

He dropped out of school at one point. He often made simple math errors in spite of understaning much deeper subjects of math and phycics. Later, he failed an entrance exam to a college in Zurich, apparently not on the math or physics parts....The point being that even great minds have some failures in their past and were not alway experts.

[Edited by Camron Rust on Jul 16th, 2003 at 12:10 PM]

[Mark Padgett]

Originally posted by Camron Rust
The point being that people that even great minds have some failures in their past and were not alway experts.

Even in spelling and sentence structure!

Just kidding, buddy.

[BktBallRef]

Originally posted by rainmaker

Ace--

In your girls' league, this isn't much of an issue.

Juulie!! I'm surprised at you!!!

You should be ashamed!!!

[rainmaker]

Originally posted by BktBallRef

Juulie!! I'm surprised at you!!!

You should be ashamed!!!

What? Who me? What'd I say?!? Huh??

[Mark Dexter]

Originally posted by Mark Padgett
I felt as if Albert Einstein had just asked me to correct his math homework.

So that's why Einstein failed his math classes as a kid . . .