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Old Sun Feb 26, 2006, 05:37pm
David Emerling David Emerling is offline
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Originally posted by wadeintothem
I can almost see what probably happened.. it probably turned into a useless noise fest with many talking about anything other than the rule at hand and in the confusion the wrong ruling was grasped onto..

I go to those things so my name is on the sign in sheet so I'm qualified for regionals or whatever homage I'm paying .. but to be honest, rules clinics are IMO virtually useless just for this reason - I do my rule learning in the quiet of my own home on this forum - where you can pull out books, get opinions of many very experienced umpires and get a great look and discussion about a rule quesiton.
Amen! You are so correct.

In my opinion, unless you're with a group of experts, "group learning" is inefficient and often counter-productive. In fact, I would say that more confusion and misinformation results in such groups.
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