[QUOTE=PeteBooth;550278]
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That is your opinion and not FACT.
Also, from your post you do not get IT
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Oh, I get it. Even used it 20 years ago.
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The FYC or 'sending a message" is a tool used ONCE/ TWICE per year TOPS.
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Frequency of lying has no bearing on the lie.
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It's PRIMARY use is to keep a player in the game who under normal circumstances would be ejected because of his behavior / antics.
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If that's the only tool you have for that situation, you are working games under-equipped.
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Like I said it's a tool that obviously you and some others are uncomfortable using which is fine but to then say is absurd and strictly opinionated.
Pete Booth
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Pete, here's a reality check. A pitch comes right down the middle, thigh high. You see it correcly. You know it's a strike, but to send a message, you call it a ball.
Question: Did you or did you not lie when announcing to the world that the pitch was a ball?
Forget your intent. Forget your lack of other tools. Answer the simple question, is not calling a ball on a pitch that you know to be a strike untruthful? Yes or no, Pete. Forget the rationalization that aids your comfort. Just answer that question yes or no.