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Old Thu Feb 16, 2006, 07:41am
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally posted by booker227
would you rather be on the field with a fellow umpire who had strong mechanics, or one who had a thorough knowledge of the rules. Why?
pick one or the other, cause it's not a perfect world.
I'll go with the umpire with rules knowledge. Please note that an umpire with "rules knowledge" is someone that doesn't just study them from a book, but from clinics.

It is much harder to convince a coach of a rule s/he believes is something else at the beginning than supporting your partner on a call. Or, at least, it seems to be for me.



[Edited by IRISHMAFIA on Feb 16th, 2006 at 12:06 PM]
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