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Old Wed Jun 29, 2011, 11:27am
MrUmpire MrUmpire is offline
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells View Post
I'm curious. What are the negatives for these terms? It seems like semantics to me.

"Ball"

"Where was that?"

"High"

"You're high if you think that."

As with any discipline, professional umpire training is fairly well uniform and the trade specific vocabulary is codified. Just like plumbers, doctors an pilots use are trained to use certain words in certain ways that may seem strange to outsiders, umpires are similarly trained.

It is not fatal to not follow that training, but it also isn't folly to stick with it.

Last edited by MrUmpire; Wed Jun 29, 2011 at 01:25pm.
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