Nigel,

I too was just joking and giving you a hard time. I think you will notice that I am not one to come on here to bad-mouth officials. You can see from my post on the 189 pound match that I did not call out the official or say he sucked, but I did point out that I had trouble swallowing the call that was made in that match.

I have never seen you work as an official, but I hope you are good and keep getting better as the sport needs good young officials.

I will admit that I have never officiated wrestling beyond kids wrestling when I was in college and the boatloads of tryouts we have at Colby every two weeks, but I've umpired more baseball games than I can count and understand how tough it can be.

I also understand as someone who has umpired, coached, and taught that you better have thick skin or this world will chew you up and spit you out. I'm sure that is true of most professions.