Think of the endless delays while your referee is having Larry paged . . . That actually happened to me a couple of years ago in the Division IA WS--Doug Tracey was apparently supposed to be in our pool, so our young referee had him paged before I could tell him Doug had probably not actually checked in.
"Arm yourself, Watson, there is an evil hand afoot ahead." -- Dennis Pierce, 2010 Bulwer-Lytton contest, detective fiction category runner-up.