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Originally posted by greymule
True. If you bend with every pitch, a lot more look like strikes. Around here, New Jersey umps stay straight up and see more pitches as missing the back shoulder. Pennsylvania umps bend with the pitch and definitely call more "deep" strikes. I believe that if some big-time SP tournament somehow installed a perfect electronic strike zone that called the pitches exactly by the book, the batters would be in for a big surprise (and so would the pitchers).
But it's all what you're used to. Put me in a PA game, and the pitchers would be unhappy. Bring a PA ump to NJ, and the batters would be unhappy.
In tournaments, I've heard players joking about a "Delaware strike," but I don't know just what that is.
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At the National School in Chester, PA two years ago, a PA player/umpire complained that when his team played in Delaware, they called every bit of the strike zone. All the Delaware umpires just turned to each other and smiled.
I don't know if Steve remembers that, but he was there. Of course, I heard about an umpire falling asleep while Bernie was speaking, but I don't think it was him
