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Old Tue Feb 12, 2008, 03:42pm
SonikBoom SonikBoom is offline
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Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle
However, it sounded like you were suggesting, and it certainly sounds like some others are suggesting, that the clock stopping and restarting during play, with no whistle or other indication of trouble, no matter how briefly, should also absolutely be noticed by the crew.

The only way to do that, is for somebody to be continuously watching the clock. (I will admit to watching it much more often during really boring games, and have sometimes wondered if the clock is running too slowly, but never have I watched it continuously throughout the game.)
It's obvious that we can't see every tenth of a second as the clock runs, and we certainly can't be watching constantly. But in the OP, they certainly could have watched constantly during one of the replay tapes and seen the prboelm at that point!
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