Freedom of Speech in Sports

[savage1]

savage-

i am not of a corporate mindset at all....i have been a business owner for almost 17 yrs total in 1 capacity or another...It is only after i sold my stores to the President of Foxwoods...Mr. Sherlock did i decide to seek employment and do what i loved to do best...meet people and sell.....

I worked for the 57th largest company in the world and was a top producer.....Each and everyday went against everything i believed in....So i am back in business......I am very opinionated and like things done my way....In the corporate world it takes forever to make decisions and that is not what i do....I am decisive and like to take action...Anyways, the corporate world in no way ever shaped my belief system....I am merely being observant of how the system works...Not saying whether i buy into it or not....just explaining why it was designed that way....

Ok-gotcha and appreciate the honesty and rational explanation.

[savage1]

Obviously this one which I found in Spark's Sat. Trends Thread I wholeheartedly agree with:

Saturday Changes I'd like to see.......
13) Freedom of speech would be tolerated; it isn't anymore. Every time Ozzie Guillen makes some outrageous statement, he winds up apologizing. Why? In America, we have the inalienable right to say what we think, no matter how rude or boorish, but it seems to be slipping away in a wave of political correctness. That's too bad.

[savage1]

Here is one thing I don't understand:
Sometimes after a game an umpire or ref. will admit to making a bad call or not calling something.
How come when this happens, it is considered good, but when after a game a manager or player says an umpire or ref. blew a call it is considered heresy?
Personally, I think it is a good one thing for managers or players to criticize calls in a nice way after the game, and if enough did it, then perhaps the officiating might improve.
It just irks me that major pro sports in this country have this "holier than thou" view of their officials.
I have no problem if during the game a manager or plyer is bounced for using profanity or showing up the umpire, but after the game, I think players and managers have the right to express disagreement over calls made during the game and especially those which affected the outcome.
Perhaps if there had been more allowed ciriticism over the years and the league acted on it, the officiating might be better than it is presently, and there would be fewer questioned calls.