What is wrong with the youth today?

I called Jadon yesterday morning to remind him he was scheduled to record, left him a message and didn't hear back from him until 8pm. Silly boy.

Well, apparently he turned off his phone so he could focus all of his attention on finishing his requirements for graduation. He has now SWORN he will be here next Wednesday to record. If he blows us off again, I say we curse his name.

Hopefully we'll have something entertaining for you next week.

Jonathon

Dang Jadon...

It's me again,

I've been hassling Jadon unmercifully for the past couple, well, ok, I spoke to him yesterday and we have confirmed that we will be sitting down this Wednesday and putting something down.

With any luck, perhaps a lot of luck, I will have time to mix the beast and post it before the end of the weekend. So we are now less than a week away from a new show.

What is in store? Well, I have a disturbing event from the tournament in June. I have a silly card story from the girls high school tournament. Jadon has a story about his first professional line. And we would like to talk more about silly fields and could use your help. If you have any good stories on the subject please let us know.

Thanks again,

Jonathon

A high school tournament? During the summer?

It's true I say. One of the local high school invites several schools from around northwest Washington for a three day, three game guarantee warm-up for the fall season. And lucky me, I am just unemployed enough to get the call to do several matches.

I am going to save the juicy story for the podcast (I am sure to do it more justice there as opposed to here), but suffice to say beyond the Championship match I centered, there was VERY little to report back to y'all. All of the pool play matches were single officials, so there was the occasional offside yelp from a defender or two. However, the two PK's I called this weekend were met with absolutely NO objections from the defensive teams, coaches or parents. I'd actually thought I'd died and gone to referee heaven. Until, that is, the final match. Then the world came quickly back into focus and my illusions of a stretch of four games without idiocy and more idiocy were shattered.

I spoke to Jadon yesterday evening and he is in his last week of school so no podcast until the third week of July it seems. Blame Jadon.

Thanks again,

Jonathon

Something boring this way meanders

Hey all,

Just a quick note to let you know the tourney two weeks ago provided very little in the way of entertaining stories (not for lack of my trying but I'll get to that on the next podcast). That said, there is a girls high school tournament which I have been assigned four games and will certainly have something of note to discuss somewhere at the conclusion (three of the four matches are just me, so ample opportunity for me to make mistakes and be ridiculed for them).

I have a phone call in to Jadon to see if he has any time to record, however, I recently received an invitation from his wife to Jadon's graduate thesis presentation (and subsequent party and graduation). What this means to y'all is it might could be a while longer before he'll have a few minutes to sit down and do a show.

I have received a great question regarding penalty kicks, which Jadon and I will be discussing so if you have any questions, comments, etc. please let me know. Also, we'd still love to hear about any field things (crazy, bad, otherwise) you may have had the misfortune of having to deal with in your time as an official. You can leave comments here, voicemail or email us.

Thanks again for your support.

Jonathon