Blackcat sorry to hear about your wrist! I just read about it and I know that is devastating.
I know you mean well and my comments are NOT personal. Actually, I think your cool people! If they would have told you! I am certain day one this would have been cleared up and you would have made sure everything was alright!
The main office is OFF the charts!!!!
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Thanks for the well wishes, however that was 3 years ago!!! I ran across it while I was researching your initial early comment :thumbup: after reading it I realized that I had never updated everyone about my recovery......
However your Team was full of Veteran Players all of whom have been in the League long enough to know the Rules. Once again not going to name, names but RW is like a brother to me but he will tell you himself that he won't even keep score on the Teams he's on, he'll come over and Coach but administratively you can forget it. My position as a League Rep is to help settle disputes on League Night, clarify rules if asked. But, beyond that I don't have any more authority than any other player. I can act as voice to the League Office on behalf of the players in the division, but the rulings and decisions are theirs to make.
Probally about 8 years ago I bought every player on my Team at that time an APA Rulebook and charged them the $5.00 in cost me, to get them RW was on my Team at the time, people were more concerned about the fact that I didn't ask them if they wanted a copy before I got them and said you owe me $5.00 rather than look at the fact that I went through the troble because I felt it was more important for everyone to be informed, than not be. Nobody every read the books and some even left them there after I gave in and said take the books and I'll eat the cost. At the beginning of each session the Office puts a new copy of the Rule Book in everyone's envelope, also there are mini locally produced 8 1/2 x 11" phamplets in all the envelope's highlighting and clarifying the Hot Topic's that alway's come up.
So bottom line is if anybody on the Team at that time bothered to go through the envelope and at least familiarize themselves with the information inside the whole situation would have been resolved before it got to the level that it did.
My position with you was that I felt that it was unfortunate that you as a new player to the league had to have his first experience play out the way that it did. And, I still feel that way. I have nothing to gain by taking my time and energy trying to explain this situation. Right is Right, and Wrong is Wrong.
Ask yourself this question, if you happend to be on a Team that did everything by the book week in and week out and a situation came about that aloud your team to advance, would it then be fair if the Team that had violations were not penalized for the mistakes they made.
Rules are rules and you can't pick and choose which one's to enforce. 3 weeks ago I had to give a game away because my player after making the shot on the 8 ball stopped the cue ball before it came to a full complete stop. The ball was in the middle of the table and would have only rolled another inch if that, but the rule is don't touch the ball while it's in motion. The week before that we gave ball in hand to the other Team because they said our player was getting advice or, (coaching) while not being on a time out.
I hope that you will listen to reason and accept the situation and move on.
Black Cat
