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Old Fri May 21, 2004, 05:21pm
wadeintothem wadeintothem is offline
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Originally posted by Dakota
Kind of the opposite of attempting to avoid - attempting to not avoid!

DEAD BALL - STRIKE

Yeah, yeah, I know,
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the batter blocks your view
... never guess a strike, yadda, yadda. But, there are times when you have to decide who gets the benefit of the doubt, and in this case, it ain't the batter! JMO.
Concur... it would have to clearly be a ball outside for me to not call that a strike... if I errored, it would be on the side of "steeeeeerike" - thats not a smart thing for a batter to be learning is acceptable or a free ride.
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