Before we get to the posting for today we HAVE to stop and applaud Isner and Mahut. MaWho? In case you missed it, these two guys played a tennis match at Wimbledon over three days for 11 hours and five minutes. On day two after over 6 hours of play they looked pretty tired. Darkness prevailed and they came back today to finish it up.
Truly an amazing athletic performance by both men.

But let’s go to sport fishing today. Off the coast of NC the Big Rock fishing tournament where a team pulled in a marlin that weighed 883 pounds. That is fifty pounds heavier than any winner in the past 52 years and 300 pounds more than the second place fish. This catch should have been enough to win them the $1,000,000. Yup, one million dollar prize.

I say should have been enough except the guy who reeled it in didn’t have a fishing license. Whoops. The rules for the event (and the law) require a valid fishing license. Not one renewed two hours after the catch.

The tournament committee has awarded the prize to the second place fish because the whopper was disqualified. So be it. But over on MSN a reader survey shows 39% of respondents call this a technicality and say they should win the prize. Wow. Is that how we think of rules and regulations these days?

Yes, it is a total bummer they didn’t win the million but they did not follow the rules. How much clearer could it be. One of the guys said, “We didn’t cheat, we are honorable men.” I agree with him. They just don’t pay attention to detail.

Better luck next year. (and get a license before you fish)

How would you rule on this? Do your employees commit technical violation of rules? How do you handle that?

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