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Originally Posted by just another ref
Is this a line from the book? I do not recall seeing it.
If it is a line in the book or if it is a concept that is accepted as being in the book, I'm still concerned about the term "definite knowledge." If you tell the scorer, "You and your book are wrong. I know because I was keeping up with it," (whatever it may be in this case) the only thing I'm fairly certain of is you're going to alienate the scorer. I think you have to put at least a certain amount of trust in your crew, which includes the table, whether you think they are worthy of this trust or not.
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You will not find that line in the book, but you will find many officials that know when the official book has screwed up and will not continue the game with an obvious mistake. I do not agree with Nevada very often, but he is right on with this one. The problem is Nevada on one hand spends a lot of time trying to tell everyone to read the rules to the letter, but then the next case tries to find a common sense solution to a reasonable problem. You should always use common sense when possible and not allow things to take place that are obviously wrong. It is often hard to know when those mistakes are so clear, but when you do notice, do not allow the rulebook to hamstring you to doing the right thing. If you know for sure a timeout was credited incorrectly, do not continue with that mistake just because the rulebook does not give you a specific direction to solve the problem.
Peace