Dear dimwit on the phone

I've worked with people who did this, and I think they genuinely expected the answer to change.

 

500 pages of dimwittery now.

 

There's no shortage.

 

If it had taken another week, it would have been the fifth anniversary of Starman creating this thread.

5 years, 500 pages.

EDIT: Speaking of dimwits, I fucked up the math. Sixth anniversary, six years, 500 pages.

 

Unfortunately.

 

Why are JV players doing that stuff? Every school I've been to pays faculty to do that.

 

I kept score for the varsity as a JV player and failed to notify the officials of a bonus situation, costing our team a free throw.

Our guys won by a point.

 

One high school I cover makes sure an adult does it. The crosstown school uses kids. And those kids are such homers it's awful. I'm surprised schools don't complain more to the section.

 

The high schools around here make sure adults do all that stuff. Not that they can guarantee their competence. One of Podunk's rivals once had someone doing the varsity basketball scorebook who was incompetent. Her ineptitude cost her own school games at least twice.

Here, they used to have someone who could almost never keep the horn and the clock switch straight. About two or three times a game, she'd hit the horn instead or turning the clock on. Then she'd act surprised and hold up both hands. Eventually, she got moved to the JV games.

 

Can't remember the last time I saw a kid keeping the book in any sport around here. It's almost always an adult, and in the rare cases a kid is doing it, that kid isn't an athlete on the team.

 

Lots of high school baseball and softball teams around us have one of the bench guys keeping the book. That's for their own statkeeping, though, and not official. And some are better at it than others.

In basketball I think our state association has a rule that it has to be an adult. They make the book keeper and clock operator wear referee's shirts.

 

Did a boys game from that school tonight and they managed to scrounge together enough adults to do the clock and book. I don't know why the girls can't seem to do it.