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Old Sat Mar 12, 2005, 08:34pm
zebraman zebraman is offline
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Originally posted by LSams
You're right.

The mechanic is similar to the traveling signal -- except it's done with your index fingers only, and hold them up above your head.

Another classic example of announcers and rulebooks never being in the same universe.
Officials mechanics aren't usually in the rule book. For high school they are in the officials manual. I wouldn't expect an announcer to know that since I'm a long-time HS ref and I didn't even know that mechanic.

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