theumpirestrikesback
TheUmpireStrikesBack
theumpirestrikesback

That comment is NOT getting enough stars.

I don’t disagree with your premise at all. I officiate, and leagues/associations are always looking for guys. And those of us that ARE doing it are getting grayer (supposedly, the average age in mid-50s. I know *I’m* right there!).

In related news, the 2019 NBA Draft is Thursday.

I first read about it without video, and thought, “Holy shit, the Nats don’t need that right now.”  Then I saw the video here, and thought “Holy shit, THAT was self-inflicted!”  When you half-ass something, you run the risk of something like that happening, fluky as it is.

Giving you a star - not because you forbade that gorgeous dog from your bed, you monster! - but because you had the decency to provide a picture.

which just withers away until it is a husk of its former self with lots of weird green things growing out of it.

Sorry, Jack, just not watching the clip.  Orange Marmalard has won my personal “Hey, fuck that guy!” award SO many times, I’ve retired it, un-retired it, and RE-retired it.  Multiple times.  He’s a lying liar who’s a terrible human being, and despite that, 60 million *other* terrible human beings voted for him.  I

Not really relevant to the article, but this:

Don’t hold your breath.  As a Cap fan, the second most satisfying thing about the Cup last year was people could finally stop their bullshit about Ovechkin’s Russian-ness somehow rendered him incapable of a) leading the team, b) winning it all. I mean, I don’t know if they actually did stop their bullshit, but there

Don’t get me wrong - this post is proper journalism-y stuff and whatnot. But a short summary seems like it would go: RFK Jr is a dipshit, Jessica Biel is (as of the Update) strongly in the dipshit camp, and all the star-struck legislators of CA are dipshits of varying degree. Am I in the ballpark?

I do not know statistics. For whatever reason, one of the video clips in my “suggested” list on YouTube, just an hour ago, was about NHL coaches being ejected. So all I can say is ..... it happens. You want stats? Get a mathematician.

My eyes actually tried to leap out of my skull, thanks to that first paragraph.  My brain tried to follow through the sockets.  You are a monster.

You’re not wrong, in that the number are heavily on one side. But it HAS been pointed out, somewhere in all this - the baseball rulebook has one “punishment” for the infractions we’re talking about: ejection. Hockey? Two minutes/Five minutes/Ten minutes can come into play. Football? 15 yard penalties can be tacked on.

Coaches CAN be ejected in the other sports, too, but baseball - even with the EJ - has a history of allowing much more bitching and complaining than the others.

Considering you openly and happily (I realize I’m reading into that, but I’ve got high levels of confidence in that prediction) admitted you’d vote for a mentally ill person to run the country, I think my response wasn’t violent enough. And yes, I’m intolerant of pig-ignorance, of which you seem to be the poster child

I will be completely honest with YOU.  If you were standing next to me right now, I would punch you in your stupid fucking face, and then kick you while you were down.  It’s fuckwits like you that helped destroy the country.

It’s articles like this, that make me want to write: “I’m sorry; I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with us.” So there it is.

Okay. At least now I know what we’re talking about. I don’t think it’s that no one questions players/coaches, it’s more than they eventually get a pass in people’s minds. Maybe it’s because they’re DOING something, versus the perception of officials, who are considered ‘passive’ in the process. And the physical

I’m gonna disagree with that, if you’re talking the teacher/official thing (there are a lot of comments, and it gets hard to follow).

I’m pretty convinced people who hate refs are like the dipshit rednecks who hate teachers.