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Originally posted by SanDiegoSteve
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Originally posted by Tim C
I read this thread for the first time today. The reason I had not read it as the picture did not show up for me. I went to the thread with two separate computers both running diffeent bases. No picture.
Now TODAY, I open the thread and the picture is sitting there nice and purty!!!
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SanDiegoSteve wrote:
"Way too far away on a tag play, gotta get your nose into it."
Wrong, wrong, wrong. That is not true for EVERY single clinic and school I went to.
When you "stick your nose in it" that is when a play can "blow up".
Please ignore the advice to "stick your nose in it."
No clinician will EVER give you that advice. Keep 10' to 15' from plays (force or slide and tag) and get the bigger picture.
Tee
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Tee, you have got to be kidding. I have been instructed from day one to get as close as possible to a tag play. I don't mean literally get in the way of the play, but you do need to be on top of tag plays. I received this advice from many pro school graduates, my instructors, columns in Referee Magazine (I can't remember which author, either Carl or Jon Bible,) and from watching how major league umpires do it. I never see them farther than 10 feet from a tag play, and more often, they are right on top of it.
I have heard the axiom of "closer to a tag play, farther from a force play," in one form or the other, for as long as I can remember.
Please don't disparage the experience I bring to the table. You do it the way you want to, but quit acting like you are some big expert, and any other method is wrong. Maybe no clinician you know would give this advice, but you certainly don't know every clinician.
I do wish I still had my back issues of Referee Magazine from 1986 or 1987. I remember the exact wording. It was "stick your nose in a tag play."
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1. I know of no reputable clinic that teaches "stick your nose in" on a tag play, but then I've only been to ones taught by the likes of Jim Evans, Gerry Davis, Doug Harvey, Gus Rodriquez, Dave Yeast and Dick Runchey.
2. I know of no published source that has been incorrect on rulings and mechanics more then Referee Magazine.
3. One doesn't have to know every clinician who exists to know the correct mechanic. Heck, I've only met five astronomers in person, but I know the earth revolves around the sun.
4. Steve, you need to step back and reflect when someone posts a correction to one of your beliefs. You have a knee jerk reaction that you can't possibly be wrong. You can be, and in this instance, you are.