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Originally posted by PWL
I would take my chances of hurting myself over someone in a "mobility device" against:
(A) a batted ball coming back at me at upwards of 100 MPH while pitching.
(B) a pitched ball traveling at my head at close to 90 MPH.
(C) a foul ball coming into a dugout as close as 30 feet to home plate.
(D) running full out trying to catch a fly ball in the gap and colliding with another fielder doing the same.
(E) running full tilt to catch a ball hit over my head and coming to a sudden stop as you contact the fence.
(F) catching a cleat in the dirt as I slide and tearing up an ankle or knee.
(G) sliding head first into home and dislocating a shoulder or breaking a finger when the catcher puts his knee down to block the plate.
(H) a fielder trying to get tag on a runner getting spiked or in the case of a bad throw the fielder and runner colliding with each other.
There's probably a few things I missed. I have yet to see a "mobility device" involved in anything I described though.
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(I) Popup on first base side, foul territory. F3 moves
to catch the ball, and either (a) trips and falls
headlong into coach's wheelchair, splitting his head open,
or, (b) Crashes into said "mobility device" at full speed,
doing any number of potential damages to himself, not to
mention the possibility of injury to "now mobile" coach.
In your examples a-h , these are all every-day injury
possibilities that every player faces. Example (i) is
not possible without the addition of the "mobility device",
an abnormality from the baseball diamond norm.
I would agree that I would not want a through h to happen
to me, but why would I wish for just one more thing
to have to worry about?