Weak TO Request / Violation

[Larks]

A's ball. I am new trail tableside in A's BC. I am near A's bench. Specifically, I am within 10 feet of A's coach. I hear somehting that maybe sounded like time out but it was very faint and I was very unsure. By the time I can glance to confirm what I heard or didnt hear, my P calls a violation on A. This was not a loud and clear TO request by any means and I never got any air in my whistle.

Should I have A) stayed with the violation and explained to him that because I had to confirm the TO, play continued up to the violation.

or B) consider the what I would call a mutter "specific knowledge", overrule the violation and take my lumps from B?

To quote King Louie from the Mel Brooks movie History of the World Part One..."Hump or Death?"

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