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Old Fri Mar 04, 2011, 11:28pm
ManInBlue ManInBlue is offline
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Originally Posted by Simply The Best View Post
A few comments.

1) It is guaranteed that you will get a HBP especially at your age level of competition. Few PUs who officiate that ball have either the skills, ruleset knowledge or cahoonas to make the correct call.
Really? And in your great omniscient existance, how many times have you actually seen a player get hit in the strike zone? Probably can be counted on one hand. So having solid skills and knowledge of the rules actually allows you to make the correct call...you don't need great balls of fire to send a batter to 1st for HBP.