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Old Fri Mar 31, 2006, 10:07am
mcrowder mcrowder is offline
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Not sure what the difference of opinion is, as you didn't say...

But ANY umpire can call ANY obstruction he sees on the field. It's not poaching if the OBS you see happens to be closer to your partner(s) than you - they may have responsibilities causing them to look elsewhere momentarily.
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