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Old Fri Sep 28, 2007, 03:28pm
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Originally Posted by mbcrowder
My pat answer for this sort of thing (whether right or wrong, in my 120 feet away opinion) is almost always, "The umpire's a heck of a lot closer than we are and has a better angle. You'd be surprised how often they are right from right there and we are wrong from way back here." Even if I thought the umpire missed it, perhaps this sort of comment will get the fan off some umpire's back in the future.
My stock answer is similar. "I've been to a lot of softball fields. I've never been on one where the view was better through the chain link."
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