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Originally Posted by wadeintothem
We must likewise remember baseball is not softball with a little ball - their aged mechanics are theirs, no matter how out dated...
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Originally Posted by outathm
As much as it pains me to say this, I agree with Wade on this one.
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IF I umpired little ball (I don't) I would use their mechanics. I didn't say otherwise, despite the fact that more than a few BB umpires will smugly bring their BB mechanics to the softball field. What I said was it was a screwy mechanic. As Mike also points out, softball uses DEAD BALL and TIME for different situations. The BB abhorrence to using the word DEAD is silly.
I don't know how people always seem to extrapolate such opinions into some strawman idea (such as refusing to use BB mechanics in a BB game) when that was never said nor implied.