Psychologist: Refs favor the home team

[Mark Padgett]

I heard that one time Diebler's team was losing late in the game but he flew around the Earth against it's rotation forcing it to spin backwards and reverse time. He then entered the game (he was late because he was out saving Lois - that's why they were losing) and scored 400 points in the final minute to win.

Man - I would have loved to have been working that game.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I heard that one time Diebler's team was losing late in the game but he flew around the Earth against it's rotation forcing it to spin backwards and reverse time. He then entered the game (he was late because he was out saving Lois - that's why they were losing) and scored 400 points in the final minute to win.

Man - I would have loved to have been working that game.

So here's a rules question:

A1 is in the back court for 9 seconds when time begins reversing. Should the official continue his count to 10 and call a 10 second violation or should he start counting backwards?

[Mark Dexter]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

So here's a rules question:

A1 is in the back court for 9 seconds when time begins reversing. Should the official continue his count to 10 and call a 10 second violation or should he start counting backwards?

Beat me to it.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

So here's a rules question:

A1 is in the back court for 9 seconds when time begins reversing. Should the official continue his count to 10 and call a 10 second violation or should he start counting backwards?

Similar to my question about officiating a game on a cruise ship when it crosses the international date line and it's now yesterday.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

So here's a rules question:

A1 is in the back court for 9 seconds when time begins reversing. Should the official continue his count to 10 and call a 10 second violation or should he start counting backwards?

I know we have some baseball umpires here: What if the batter hits the ball over the outfield wall, but hits it so hard that the ball travels all the way around the earth, back into the stadium and the pitcher catches the ball? Home run or out?

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I know we have some baseball umpires here: What if the batter hits the ball over the outfield wall, but hits it so hard that the ball travels all the way around the earth, back into the stadium and the pitcher catches the ball? Home run or out?

Jon Diebler must play baseball on the off-season.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Jon Diebler must play baseball on the off-season.

It's only actually happened once, though. It went right through the pitchers' gloves the rest of the time, and he settled for a triple. Of course, he stole home on the next pitch.

[Jimgolf]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I know we have some baseball umpires here: What if the batter hits the ball over the outfield wall, but hits it so hard that the ball travels all the way around the earth, back into the stadium and the pitcher catches the ball? Home run or out?

That sounds a lot like the old Bugs Bunny cartoon, where Bugs played against the Marauders, except that Bugs climbed the Empire State Building to catch the home run. As I recall, the umpire called the batter out.

"You heard what the man said!"