I played organized softball and baseball for a couple of decades as an adult. I loved the game and still do.
Can’t tell folks how many bad calls went against me over time, but I did finally morph my thoughts on these “bad calls”.
Let’s face it, players makes mistakes all the time. Coaches put a new pitcher in taking scouting reports into consideration. The next pitch the opposing batter hits the ball out of the park. The game is filled with examples of mistakes. Some cost a game some don’t.
Umpires or referees are no different. They will also make bad calls. Sometimes those calls go with you, and sometimes those calls go against you. That is simply the game.
I used to think of bad calls as being unfair, and ultimately they are. Life isn’t always fair. You have to explain that to your kids as they grow up.
Baseball, Football, Basketball, and whatever sport is refereed, bad calls will be made. It is part of the game. This is a game after all, and things just don’t always go your way. Life is not always fair.
Learning to roll with the punches is a part of the game.
I know there’s a lot of money involved. I know that in the Olympics, some athletes don’t get good scores due to political gamesmanship.
It is what it is. If you don’t want calls to go against you. Don’t play. If you do, they will on occasion go against you.
Be a good person. Be a good loser when your turn comes up.
There’s an excellent case to be made that the NFL’s negligence is to blame.
These are part-time referees. It would be a trivial cost to make them full time employees, in the NFL’s budget - this is the same NFL that had $100 million to throw at hard-left causes in the wake of Kaepernick, so they have no excuse to have part timers ref the game.
Suit’s got more merit than it looks on the surface. May this destroy the league!
Agreed - well said.
My son’s baseball coach used to tell the boys that there will always be bad calls. So, try to get a big enough lead that a bad call doesn’t decide a game.