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Old Tue Apr 06, 2004, 11:33am
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally posted by BigUmpJohn


Ok. Gotcha. Neither wind, nor sun (or rain, sleet, or snow) affect the IF. Nothing difficult about that.
Well, yeah, sorta what I said. Man, where did my confidence go?

Obviously, those things can cause the fielder to misjudge or struggle with the ball. I just don't think the umpire should preset parameters because of foul weather prior to actually witnessing what is occuring on the field.

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