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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
Hell, even as a kid playing baseball, a player had to attempt to hit the ball for the umpire to call a strike.
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Maybe I'm older or younger than you, but as a kid, if we didn't pull our bat back when squaring to bunt, it was a strike.
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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
To me, it is an indictment of the umpire's inability or refusal to make the proper call as the rule dictates. And if that is their attitude, lets go back to rounders where after the maximum number of pitches, the striker began running the bases whether they hit the ball or not. WTF, is that not the idea of the game anyway?
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Okay, I'm younger than you.