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Old Tue Oct 31, 2006, 09:22am
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Originally Posted by tibear
And if he did lift it 2 millimeters off the ground just before contact, tough for him he shouldn't have had his foot out of the box to begin with.
Translation - even if the player did legally hit the ball, I'm going to enforce my own unwritten rule and call him out because he has angered the Umpire God by his previous actions of having his foot on the ground out of the box (which I noticed BEFORE the ball hit the bat because I was not doing my job)
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Others can ignore what they want but I'll stick to enforcing the rulebook.
How can you blatantly tell us you are going to enforce your own set of right vs wrong, despite what the rulebook says, and then make this last statement in the same post.

I agree with Tee, who quoted Carl. Amazing.
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