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Old Thu Nov 16, 2017, 11:21am
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by Dakota View Post
Can you elaborate? (About the precarious position; I get the follow-the-leader comment, I think ...)
Does a cheat show you his hand before cheating? If someone knows a piece of equipment isn't going to pass inspection, they probably aren't going to offer it up.

The precarious portion, IMO, is the imminent questioning of equipment during a game and liability risk should a non-inspected piece of equipment enter the game unknown to the umpire and a player is injured. Twenty years ago, I would have scoffed at the supposition I just offered, but not in today's world.
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