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Originally Posted by mbyron
Robert, your questions continually betray the fact that you are not an official (I don't mean that as a putdown, just a fact).
Fans focus on what is probable; officials prepare themselves for what is possible.
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But that's belied by the many remarks I've read here -- one even in this thread -- wherein it seems officials go out of their way to try to see to it that players don't do something stupid. What else would've been the purpose of explaining the situation to the captains as described upthread?