I have seen it all. (kind of long)

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Originally posted by JRutledge
Then right after the ceremony, the scorekeeper informs me (I was the R) that the visiting score book had two flaws. The scorekeeper recognized that a starters number was wrong and another number was inaccurate. So instead starting the festive evening with a jump ball, we start with a T. HERE WE GO!!!
....the visiting book told the coach that he was not in the book. She is the same person that could not get her own team right in their book and messed up what the official scorekeeper copied

Just curious Rut. Do you as the R take the book to the head coach of each team to get them to check it for correctness before the game starts? If not, this may help prevent this kind of start. I have quit trusting team managers and scorekeepers for this very reason. By allowing the head coach, or someone he/she designates, to check the book one last time, I have pretty much eliminated this problem, and any T that does have to be administered for this now lies directly on the head coach's lack of ability to know who is on his/her team.

Rut, if you get a playoff game, please send the original draft to Reader's Digest, so that we will only get the short version.