Something's a little off in Georgia

Fuck a playoff game, the crew at the scorers table should never work any sporting event anywhere ever.

Keeping score at a basketball game really ain't that tough. You're adding numbers in increments of 1, 2 and 3. Most of us advance to that mathematical plateau in about second grade.

As everybody knows from the eternal ongoing kids basketball thread, I've watched maybe 100 kids games over the last 10 years. In that time I remember maybe two or three incidents where things at the scorers table were screwed up enough to require more than about 30 seconds to fix it. And that's with junior high kids doing the scorebook half the time,

I know there's nothing that can be done about the game itself, but if I were Greater Atlanta Christian, I'd see to it that the names and pictures of the offending scorers crew was plastered all over the place. Doxx their ass to the moon. I'd buy ads to do it. "Crucify them." (A nice liturgical touch.) Which kind of begs the question, why is the offending crew never named at all in the story?

I realize that would be horribly embarrassing to some people who didn't sign up to be in the public eye. Tough shit. One of the biggest problems of our society is the extent we go to coddle and protect idiots.

 

Hey, everyone at the official scorer's table even took their shoes off so they could count it up right.

 

The GHSA is so fucked up that Phillips agreed to retire in hopes of persuading the state legislature not to take it over.

GHSA director Phillips to retire

 

Having worked "with" the GHSA on numerous occasions, I can verify that the entire thing should be burned to the ground so the Braves can build a new stadium there.

 

Ted Watts should work for GHSA.

He's the tennis umpire who oversaw a WTA match where the service lines were 3 feet too short. Players complained during the match as their serves kept going long and asked Watts if the lines could be wrong.

"That's crazy," he said. He did get around to measuring them . . . after the match.

Couple of years later Watts umpired a Wimbledon match between Venus Williams and Karolina Sprem. During the deciding tiebreak, he gave Sprem an extra point when calling out the score. Williams went on to lose the match.

 

Haven't seen it in a playoff game (thank God) but I have run into a couple of cases where the score was screwed up to the point that it took more than a 10-second fix. One sparked a great kerfuffle when the scoreboard operator awarded points to the wrong team and no one caught it for a few minutes. The home book finally saw the mistake, called over the officials and everything got sorted out. The problem was the road book just assumed the scoreboard was right and adjusted his score, so there was an argument for a few minutes before it got sorted out. In the mean time, parents lost their shit and a few of them were escorted from the gym and at least one finally left when the AD got on the phone with police. Luckily my notes lined up with the home book so I was able to talk a few people off the ledge in the gym and on Twitter.

The second time that it was an issue was the home book got it in her head that someone's layup was in fact a 3-pointer. So she had the score changed in between quarters and the road book fought the good fight but to no avail. Problem was the whole game the home book was missing a bunch of shit and was asking the road guy what just happened and the ref had to correct a few of the girl's mistakes as well. Road coach was pretty pissed after the game and of course the home coach was completely baffled by why there was a problem. Of course the score was right.

The most heartbreaking one took about 30 seconds to fix but cost someone a chance to advance to a state wrestling tournament. In a consolation semifinal, one wrestler scored a takedown and a two-point near fall, but the score keeper didn't make note of the near fall. So at the end, the score gave the win to the wrong kid. The "losing" kid's coach called the official over and asked if the score was right. Ref took a look at the scoring breakdown, pointed out the mistake and the score was adjusted. Kid A went from winning 6-5 to losing 7-6 and he went in full meltdown. His coaches told him to calm down. Even they weren't arguing, which says a lot

 

Counting is hard, an ongoing series.

https://www.wkrg.com/local-news/sco...h-we-won-the-game-but-we-dont-get-the-reward/

 

He got caught watching the paint dry.

 

And here I thought the CIF was the most anal organization in high school sports.

 

We oughta hide-strap his ass to a pine rail and send him on down the Monon Line.

 

When reached for comment about the discrepancy — the AHSAA’s responded: “Per NFHS regulations, once a game has ended the score is final.”


They literally brought it up multiple times in the game. This isn't getting back to school and looking at the video near midnight and bringing to light the next day.