Thanks Robert and Ed.
 
Even if there were some validity to the evaluations, what good is having
them in advance?  You're ready to watch the game, and out skates ref X, who
many folks have said is incompetent.  What do you do?  Start formulating
your excuses for losing before the team even skates on the ice?  Say, "Aw
damn, I was going to enjoy this game, but now I know I won't, because the
the reffing will be bad"?  What it will probably do is make you focus on the
ref, and the expectations of bad calls will become a self-fulfilling
prophesy.
 
Clay
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert E. Jacobs [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 2:13 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Referee Watch
>
> Good call.
> Though I'm sure most critiques on refs are purely objective (ahem), it
> seems that, in truth, outrageous calls by refs rarely determine the
> outcome of games. Marginal calls are, well...marginal, and some will go
> your way, and some won't. Players make mistakes, as will refs, and as
> long as refs don't have a vested interest in the outcome of the game, then
> I
> guess I don't understand the topic ever being brought up, really. If
> <insert team here> gets beat because of a call in the last fewminutes of a
> game, how about considering all of the prior elements within *the game*
> that led to it being such a pivotal call to begin with.
>
> Not that I'm talking about anyone on Hockey-L; just the incessant
> whiners abound. You know who you are. :-)
>
> Sorry for the rant. Refs are such a cheap, easy target; it just seems
> disrespectful, to a point.
>
> Robert.
>
> > Sure, all refs are incompetent.  I've said it before, and I'll say it
> > again:
> >
> > Officiating is the only profession in the world where you have to be
> > perfect on your first day on the job and improve on that performance
> each
> > succeeding day thereafter.
>
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