Thread: GD Stance
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Old Tue Oct 31, 2006, 12:03pm
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Gentlemen,

Just as a point of information....

I'm the one who took the pictures that Tim posted on the ABUA website that were linked in an earlier post on this thread, and I watched the entire game. During the game, I saw exactly one pitch that I thought Tim missed the call on (though Tim was a bit harsher in his own self-critique following the game).

As I recall, the pitch I thought he "missed" was a breaking ball that started high and inside & then broke late over the middle of the plate. This was the only pitch that drew any kind of negative reaction (which was fairly mild) from the coaches, players, or fans the entire game. Nobody had any negative reaction to pitches in the "at the knees, outside corner" area the whole game. They looked like good calls to me. And, as you know, since I'm a coach I have somewhat "superhuman" abilities in terms of being able to call close pitches from a perspective where there is really no angle or view to accurately judge.

Now I've never even tried the GD stance/system in a drill, so I don't know whether Tim really had a good view of those pitches or not - but it sure seemed like he did.

Just my $.02.

JM
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