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Originally Posted by bisonlj
To satisfy all the pundits and fans who think the current rule isn't consistent, I offer this suggestion.
If my gut tells me it's a catch, it's a catch.
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AFAIK, that's how it's been ruled in baseball since, like, forever. Baseball has lots of cases of fielders falling with the ball, the ball's popping out, the ball's being carried over a field boundary, and cases where voluntary release has to be distinguished from failure to catch. Yet even at the highest levels of the game, unlike the NFL, they've never seen a need to refine it further or adopt some proxy determination for that judgment call.