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Mike - the reason umpires are wary of ASA questions, and/or bothered by the vague wording, is that tests in the past were designed to be tricky, and required a very strict reading of the words in the question. Now, all of a sudden, you're telling us that the poor wording is just that - poor wording, and not attempts to make umpires miss questions due to poor reading. We're reading these questions, trying to think of EVERY eventuality revolving around them, trying to determine if the statement in a T/F question is true in ALL cases. In previous tests, a question like this one would be patently false. Now it's true because of poor wording and we should just live with it? Baloney.
This question is false. Forget the nitpicky "over the fence in foul ground" reason that it's false (which, incidentally, would have made the "right" answer false in previous years even if the 2nd part of this was not blatantly false)... the question does NOT state that this is a fly ball. This question is false for all GRD's subsequently touched by a fielder before it flew over the fence on a bounce, and for all balls that hit a glove or hand, then bounced and went over.
ASA has trained us to look for the nitpick on T/F questions. You can't just unring that bell, and then blame the test-taker.
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