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Old Tue Nov 17, 2009, 01:03pm
Raymond Raymond is offline
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Originally Posted by rwest View Post
The crew did not fail to do their job. The clock operator was biased and failed to stop the clock on purpose. We can't see how much time is on the clock because the clock doesn't show tenths of a second. I've never suggested setting aside a rule so please don't accuse me of that. I'm suggesting that is you go by the strick definition of definite, you can never put time on the clock because we never know exactly how much time is on the clock when we blew are whistle. There will always be a lag.

Whatever number you observed on the clock is the number you put up. If the crew is doing its job properly then it wouldn't matter how bias the timer was. You hear/blow the whistle and you immediately glance at the clock, especially in an end-of-game situation.

As I stated earlier, we're talking about "rule book" definition not the dictionary definition.
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