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Old Fri Jan 04, 2019, 01:55pm
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Originally Posted by bucky View Post
I disagree as at times it does. The calling official may have seen something not visible to us/replay. Right or wrong, it is difficult to argue with an official who sells something on a marginal-looking play. The official is telling the world "Hey, I got something for sure." and who are we to argue with that as spectators looking at a grainy video from afar. I was simply saying that if he indeed had something from that position, he should have sold it better.
Non sequitur. Selling it can make it less likely someone argues, but it can't make the actual call more correct. The call is the call. Selling it is, well, selling it so that others accept it. (I know I've sold an incorrect call more than once.)
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