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Originally posted by Ref Ump Welsch
Mike,
You have a good point, but can you actually justify it was intentionally contacting the ball? (I'm being a devil's advocate here) What if the player brought his hand up to "shield" himself and ended up catching it? I guess that's why Butler and Pollard and the boys decided to "let it slide" so to speak.
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That's why we get the big bucks to make those judgment calls.
The exact reason for allowing the player to catch the ball is because they have been doing it forever and they believe it would cause more problems if they started ruling players out for such actions than just allowing them to continue what they have been doing for years. This was discussed ad nauseum this past weekend.