Ah, Part 2...

It took a bit of time out of my stimulating Saturday afternoon to kick Part 2 in the head on get it off my computer to the interwebs. Thankfully, it wasn't nearly as much trouble as Part 1 and with any luck I can get silly little Jadon over here this week to record a bit.

Sorry to say, I have painfully little news from the girl's tournament a couple weekends back. I was hoping for a thrill-fest of cards, dissent, broken bones and complete carnage. Instead, it was an extremely laid back tournament (from my seats anyway), I issued a whopping two cautions, one each in two matches, for essentially the exact same foul (reckless contact after the ball had been played away). No protesting from the players (one actually apologized to the girl she had just flattened), no problems from the coaches or parents. Even the PK I called in the first minute of one match was met with nary a word from anyone. At the half, the AR mentioned that the coach of the player who committed the foul, stated he was surprised his player was still on the pitch after the foul. From my point of view, it was a foul and nothing more, but I can certainly see where it may have looked worse from the touchline.

I hope to have something to you in the next couple weeks. There is the boys tourney this coming weekend (as well as the Fair!!!), so there should be something to talk about.

Thanks again for checking out the show.

Show 20, Part 1 be up

Before y'all get all up my grille about having to release Show 20 in two parts, please consider the following:

1. I am stupid. As a result of my stupidity, I recorded the entire show incorrectly making the subsequent editing of the show a significantly more difficult and lengthy process. Where the typical show takes about 15 mins of editing for every 10 mins of show, my moronity has altered the equation to 25 minutes of editing for every 10 mins.

2. The hard drive where all the good stuff is, died. While I was able to back-up the majority of files from the hard drive before it became defunct, I wasn't able to get the Photoshop original (to easily make the Show Pics) or any of the sound fx or pre-recorded beds (like the vocal intro). Combined with the editing debacle, well, I spent quite a bit of time doing much of nothing. I hope to find the time to re-record an intro, acquire sound fx and re-edit the Photoshop background eventually but unfortunately, it is a VERY low priority.

3. A piece of sound found its way underneath the visible data making the final mix a crazy piece of mess. Once I found it and removed it, I had to re-align the existing sound bits so things didn't sound like, well, bad.

But really, it all starts with me being stupid. I hope to get the second part out by week's end.

Thanks again.

Jonathon

Latest show is recorded, really.

Jadon actually made it over yesterday and we were able to put down about 45 minutes of stuff. Once I have a chance to edit it and throw a bed behind it, I will post it for your appreciative consumption. However, I am kid-laden today, have several matches at a tourney this weekend and am joining the family on Sunday in Seattle for the Jim Henson show at the EMP.

With any luck, the latest will be up early Monday.

Thanks again for your support.

Jonathon

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