Warning signs

[laxfan25]

Originally posted on the Lacrosse Forum;

Originally Posted by laxref39

Are things really this bad, is what my wife says true, "There Needs To Be a Twelve Step Program" for Lacrosse junkies!!!!!!!!

"Hi, my name is LaxRef, and I can't stop talking about the rules of lacrosse."

(In unison) "Hi, LaxRef!"

Warning signs:

1) Do you wake up craving a Rules Quiz?

2) Do you find yourself sneaking around at work, logging into the Lacrosse Forum and hiding the screen from co-workers?

3) Alternately, do you neglect child-care duties in order to post just “one more answer”?

4) Do you have copies of the NFHS rulebook hidden around the house so that if the spouse finds one and flushes it down the toilet (Egad! That’s worse than the Q’uran! Allah curse you!) you’ve got a spare?

5) When you check yourself out in the mirror do you start practicing hand signals?

6) Do you break out in a cold sweat when you sit down on the pot and the copy of the Mechanics Manual is not in the reading pile?

7) Do you experience depression when there are No New Posts in BOLD?

Do you dream in black and white....stripes?

9) Do you silently mouth “Flag Down – push in the back” when a grocery cart bumps the one in front in the checkout line?

10) Do you find yourself typing again, even though you’ve already told yourself “that was my last post”?

If you can answer yes to any three of these questions, you may have a problem.
For immediate help contact CoachRob in Pennsylvania. Wait a minute, he’s already checked himself into the treatment center! (Would that be the Frenchy Julian Clinic?) Anyone know when he’s scheduled for release?

Feel free to add any more you can think of. Night-night. I’ve got to go review the AR’s on Simultaneous Fouls. It’s a great tranquilizer. ZZZzzzzzz.

[BigheadTodd]

I admit, I get really depressed when there are no posts. It sends me over the edge when that happens and Flip decides to go 5 days without putting a new journal page up. Do I have a problem? I have already watched all of the CSTV Lax archives at least twice each..

[Sonny]

No new posts at USLIA.com?

What is the world coming to??

[Jolly Roger]

Warning signs:

You practice counts with a stopwatch rather than understand the flow of a game, realizing that rules are not absolute.

[LaxRef]

Warning signs:

You practice counts with a stopwatch rather than understand the flow of a game, realizing that rules are not absolute.

Well, I have to comment here. We've been instructed to let the flow of the game continue when, say, you reach 10 while the ball is in the air on the way to zone 4 but hasn't actually touched anything in the box yet, or when (NFHS rules) a player is about to step over the DCL when the count reaches 10. And I'm fine with that; as you say, it keeps the flow of the game going.

OTOH, I can't stand watching an official who is counting so glacially slow that their "10-second" count couldn't possibly be less than 20 seconds. I think every official should practice with a stopwatch since it's the only way to get any consistency. If you try it, you'll be amazed at how fast you need to swing your arm to not be too slow.

So, in summary: make your 10-second counts as close to 10-seconds as posible (without going under), but let the play continue if the player is about to do whatever he needs to to end the count.