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Here is what it is.
Both teams have all day to figure out their response should they be asked the question. There are only two possible answers and the person RESPONSIBLE for informing the umpire of that PREDETERMINED decision should know which answer is to be offered.
As an umpire, we have a responsibility to BOTH teams and are not there to protect the ones that are lacking in the intelligence it takes to pick a or b.
Instead of blaming the umpire for not being that RESPONSIBLE individual's guardian angel, the team should be talking to the idiot who made the mistake and remember, it was THEY who selective that person to deliver the message.
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The bat issue in softball is as much about liability, insurance and litigation as it is about competition, inflated egos and softball.
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