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Old Mon Jun 05, 2006, 10:31pm
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Originally Posted by Rick Vietti

The only way for this to change is to change the rule. Both feet entirely inside the batters box (meaning no part of the foot outside the line but could still touch the line) and then the batting will be fairer. Still a judgement call and could be easily missed or argued.
It doesn't make any difference what the rule is or how it is applied, as long as it is done equally across the field, no one has an advantage, thus it is as fair as it can possibly be.
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