New term: junk-grabbing
This past weekend, the Myronian and I were officiating a UIL regional tournament. During the finals match, here is what occurred:
Player A had received a code violation (racket abuse) in his previous match and since codes are cumulative in UIL, his next code would be a game penalty. Seems that he lost a crucial point in the finals match and immediately grabbed his junk (note that I used the contemporary term instead of crotch or balls) and began to lewdly grope himself.
At that point, I immediately gave him a code violation (for lewd junk-grabbing) and a game penalty. Since the dual match was tied at 8-8 and the next code violation for our young buck would have been a default, the match took on huge implications.
I have no doubts that the boy should have been coded both times but what I resent the most is that I had to stand on his court for an hour and a half (since I was the only one who could default him) and watch his gyrations and loss of self-control. In essence, what he had done was interjected me into the dual match by his bad behavior.
Sometimes we get called into positions that we didn't ask for...
(BTW, he finished the match and won and his team won the dual match and will be going to the state tournament this weekend. Sure hope he can keep his hands off himself in College Station.)
3 comments:
Maybe he had crabs?
Finally, Randy had do some real officiating for once, instead of just sitting around at the tournament desk.
Randy only sits at the tournament desk at Brookhaven tournaments. At this tournament aforementioned, I never even had time to sit down.
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