Block/Charge ...

Raymond

BillyMac wrote
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C'mon Raymond. Certainly you can tell the difference between obsession and curiosity.

Your word count on the block/charge vs. your word count on the undergarment reveal the difference.

BillyMac

JRutledge wrote
Billy has too much damn time on his hands and so do I talking about it.

True. I've never met JRutledge, and have had no contact with him other than the Forum, but always considered him too young to be retired. He did once mention (showing his pride) that his parents were active in the civil rights movement of the past century so he may be older than I believe him to be.

Come to think of it, there are some regular Forum posters that seem to be able to post throughout the day, like me. Have we become a forum of retirees?

BillyMac

Raymond wrote
Your word count on the block/charge vs. your word count on the undergarment reveals the difference.

Great observation, and quite true. I'm always hesitant to post on levels outside of the NFHS.

JRutledge

BillyMac wrote
True. I've never met JRutledge, and have had no contact with him other than the Forum, but always considered him too young to be retired. He did once mention that his parents were active in the civil rights movement of the past century so he may be older than I believe him to be.

Come to think of it, there are some regular Forum posters that seem to be able to post all day like me. Have we become a forum of retirees?

I am likely older than you think but that has nothing to do with the last paragraph.

Peace

Raymond

BillyMac wrote
Great observation, and quite true. I'm always hesitant to post on levels outside of the NFHS.

Plays are plays. Discuss it at your level.

The NBA has employees who monitor social media. You are not going see any opinions on NBA plays on social media by officials in the NBA pipeline. There were a couple of NBA vets on Facebook who would occasionally explain why certain plays were called a certain way, but I've noticed that has tailed off recently.

BillyMac

BillyMac wrote
JRutledge ... did once mention (showing his pride) that his parents were active in the civil rights movement of the past century ...

I found it. Greatest JRutledge post ever on the Forum. A very rare peek into his private life outside of basketball. One can read the pride he has in his Mom and Dad, as he certainly should. I'm proud of them and I don't even know them.

JRutledge wrote
I have been in several games where people did not celebrate the Anthem in several different ways. For one many people in certain places do not stand or put their hand over their heart. So if I got upset every time someone did not do something they were supposed to based on the standards of this practice, then I would have done something long time ago. Now I have been involved in games where some kind of "protest" has taken place in both football and basketball. My father is buried in a Veteran Cemetery and I grew up respecting this flag, but I had a mother that was in the Civil Rights Movement where she was in a lawsuit for discrimination when they segregated a school in Florida. So I want this country to uphold the standards they have set. And protest is supposed to be uncomfortable and supposed to draw attention ... But it is not my place to tell those what to do personally with their politics outside of the game. I am also a person that officiated both a football and basketball game at a school whose mascot was the "Rebel Flag" and as an African-American who is deeply offended by that flag ...

Raymond

BillyMac wrote
True. I've never met JRutledge, and have had no contact with him other than the Forum, but always considered him too young to be retired. He did once mention (showing his pride) that his parents were active in the civil rights movement of the past century so he may be older than I believe him to be.

Come to think of it, there are some regular Forum posters that seem to be able to post throughout the day, like me. Have we become a forum of retirees?

I'm retired, retired military. In 5 years, I'll add another retiree tag to my shingle after 21 years of federal civil service. I'm old enough that I was directly affected by Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1. I'm young enough that I can hold my own in talking sh!t about music, sports, and pop culture with Airmen who graduated high school during the Trump presidency.

I can post throughout the day because I work in I.T. and often have downtime while waiting for something to finish.

BillyMac

Raymond wrote
The NBA has employees who monitor social media. You are not going see any opinions on NBA plays on social media by officials in the NBA pipeline.

Lowly IAABO, on both the local level, and international level, consisting of mostly high school officials, has strongly urged us to stay off of social media. That's why I don't post under my real name. I'd like to post under my real name and location, I feel like a coward with no conviction hiding behind a fictitious pseudonym, but I'm a rule follower, not a rebel.

BillyMac from a little corner of Connecticut. If I gave you any more information, then I would have to kill you.

Raymond

BillyMac wrote
Lowly IAABO, on both the local level, and international level, consisting of mostly high school officials, has strongly urged us to stay off of social media. That's why I don't post under my real name. I'd like to post under my real name and location, I feel like a coward with no conviction hiding behind a fictitious pseudonym, but I'm a rule follower, not a rebel.

BillyMac from a little corner of Connecticut. If I gave you any more information, then I would have to kill you.

I switched to my real name so I that don't ever "hide behind the keyboard". It helps me in holding myself accountable and not posting anything I'm not willing to put my name behind.

I actually ran into a couple of Forum members this past weekend.

BillyMac

Raymond wrote
I switched to my real name so I that don't ever "hide behind the keyboard". It helps me in holding myself accountable and not posting anything I'm not willing to put my name behind.

I fully understand and agree with your reasoning and wish I had the courage to do the same (true for all that post under their real name and location).

It doesn't take Dick Tracy to figure out who BillyMac, an IAABO member from a little corner of Connecticut really is, but it does give me some degree of plausible deniability and anonymity, at least enough to satisfy IAABO.

Anybody who private messages me on the Forum gets a full Monty reply. Wait? I'm being told ... Nudity? Really? Never mind.

BillyMac

JRutledge wrote
All that matters is the jersey ..

Speaking of jerseys, for you baseball purists out there, if you haven't heard already, prepare yourself for a "uniform abomination" at tonight's Major League Baseball All Star Game.

JRutledge

Raymond wrote
I switched to my real name so I that don't ever "hide behind the keyboard". It helps me in holding myself accountable and not posting anything I'm not willing to put my name behind.

I actually ran into a couple of Forum members this past weekend.

This is why I have literally used my name for the past 25 years on these and like forums. I want to stand by every word and comment I say. So if I said something one time, I either learn from it or move on. And because I have used my real name, I have met people that come to me directly and respect what I said or know it was me who said it. So when I moved up the ladder, I would deal with people that knew I was speaking to what they saw me do.

I also run into people often when I go to camps or things across the country, people that have read this forum. I am very pleased with the legacy this has created and allowed me to do other things as a result of people know my words are from a real person. Not many people on this forum over the years can say that.

Peace

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