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Originally Posted by LMan
I'm confident that Mr Wendelstedt will not sanction the 'practice' of calling breaking balls in the dirt strikes, and that refusal to do so is clear evidence of cowardice  |
I'll apologize and back off the statement of cowardice and leave it at this:
Most everyone on this thread has said they would not call a strike on a pitch that clearly hit the strike zone if it hits the dirt, one person even said any curve ball caught even a couple inches below the zone should not be a strike.
The reason given when I first posted my opinion, and reiterated many times was that the coaches will give you too much crap, and when I stopped calling that pitch it made life easier and so on and so on.
When I hear those reasons for not calling a strike i come to one conclusion.
Perhaps coward is to strong a term.
In any case I think on this issue the coaches opinion is carrying too much weight.