What was worse? The officiating in the STJ-Rutgers game or SA Handicap?

[NoLuvForPletch]

Has anyone seen such a bad run for officials? At this rate, people might forget about Jim Joyce's gargantuan mistake by the time the 2011 baseball season begins.

It will forever be discussed that as long as humans are involved in officiating, their supposed non-biased approach will always be called into question.

Someone needs to tell me how anyone can watch the last minute of the RU-STJ game and tell me how the only fouls called at the end of the game were the intentional fouls against RU to stop the clock and the silly blocking call against Biruta 25 feet from the basket? While STJ got away with a charge on the baseline, a flagrent violation of the rule of verticality on the Coburn drive and the over the back not called when Mitchell was pushed out of bounds in his attempt to secure a missed free throw. And that was even before Brownlee walked, stepped out of bounds and heaved the ball into the stands with time remaining on the clock. How can one think there aren't other things in play here?

Now Saturday's events in California are just another example of this. Many have suggested that Baffert's role in this incident may have been the factor that tipped the scales in Game on Dude's favor. Stewards concerned with who might make more noise about the incident, or how big the race is being involved in determining what action to take are factors we are led to believe do not influence their final decision. How can anyone possibly believe that?

Unfortunately, there is likely no solution to this mess. Is there?