Regarding side mechanics, I just moved to Ontario, and the baseball federation here is pretty strict. The nice part is that we use one set of rules for all levels of baseball (OBR). The downside is that they leave far less room for umpire's personal approaches to things like strike mechanics. I'm not trying to justify our peers who do the hokey pokey on every called strike, but I've always believed that a certain amount of personality and style is a part of the game.
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