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Mon Sep 18, 2006, 01:51pm
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To me, it's not when you question a call that makes you a fanboy.
It's when you say the officials GAVE a game to somebody that you become a fanboy. When I was 13, I used to think that all refs were incompetent and that if they blew a call that I could obviously see from my couch with my teenage eyes was wrong, they wanted the other team to win or they were being paid off. Having grown up, and now having done this for a few years, I can see how childish that attitude was. And it still is. Officials make mistakes. They don't GIVE games to anyone, and to imply otherwise is immature. To be unable to accept the defeat of 53 (or 85, or however many it happens to be) guys you've never met and to blame it on an official's call is the height of fanboyism.
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"And I'm not just some fan, I've refereed football and basketball in addition to all the baseball I've umpired. I've never made a call that horrible in my life in any sport."---Greatest. Official. Ever. 
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