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Old Sun Oct 24, 2010, 06:54am
mbyron mbyron is offline
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The "fix" for this issue, if you want to call it that, is 7-person mechanics.

To put it otherwise: 5-person mechanics, like 2-umpire mechanics in baseball, involves a series of compromises in order to have eyes on as many plays as possible. Unfortunately, a few fall in the gaps.

When that happens, we make the best of it. Not much of a fix, I'll grant you, but it should offer some comfort to realize that "making the best of it" here is not a defect of the official(s) but of the system.
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