RE: ? on Walker

["Wright, Cecil" <Cecil.Wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now that's sensible...call a foul or don't call a foul because he's a pain.
Great!!  Perhaps boxing refs will take the same approach.  A punch square in
the nuts from a nice fellow is perfectly fine...but if Tyson does it, let's
deduct a point.

Since when is it their job to call a foul based upon whether they like the
player or not?  Is that not a flagrant violation of the spirit of their job?

Toine has 7 technicals this year, one of which was for smiling at the ref.
Can't you see that writeup now...."I called a foul on him and he smiled at
me the pain in the ass".

This is ludicrous!  Vin Baker has 4 along with those other pains in the
asses Artest, J. O'Neal, Stackhouse, Kobe, CWebb, Francis, KMart, Rickey
Davis, and that noted pain, KG.  And of course Vin's Ts are in about a
fraction of the playing time given to all these other guys.

Antoine has no flagrant fouls and has not fouled out of any games.  Artest,
by comparison, has committed 2 flagrants and has been disqualified 3 times.
Call it whining all you want, Dan, but if you don't see a discrepancy here,
it's because you are choosing not to.

Cecil  


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Forant [mailto:dforant1@nycap.rr.com]
Sent: December 05, 2002 1:38 PM
To: celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re: ? on Walker


I wonder is this is the only group that sheds tears because of the refs.
Walker doesn't get calls because he's a pain in the ass. Mr. Mouth Almighty.
If he concentrated more on his game instead of this lovefest he has with
refs he'd be better off. He comes off as a whiner.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: <Eggcentric@AOL.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: ? on Walker


> < We have this thread each year about the refs and they do not
> appear to be improving. > -Cecil
>
> As you suggest, Cecil, the refs still seem unduly inept, which
> continues to cast a dark shadow upon the NBA's credibility and
> causes me to still wonder why the NBA can't attract, or at least
> better train, higher quality court commandos.
>
> Just maybe as Celt fans, we only scream at the ref's  sins of omission
> in NOT calling obvious fouls against us, yet tend to remain silent
> during their sins of commission when they call erroneous fouls on
> our opponent.
>
> In the end, we can only hope that their ineptness will balance
> out in our favor ...  i.e. our present 22.4 fouls per game this season
> vs. our opponents'  23.2 fouls per game.
>
> < ... and the touch fouls which are called against us > -Cecil
>
> Baker, Baker, Baker ... ugh to the cardinal number trillionth degree.
> It is time for The Three Stooges to admit that they are on
> different wave lengths.  And never the twain shall meet till a
> firing do us part.
>
> Eggy