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Old Mon Mar 05, 2012, 06:03pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by mbcrowder View Post
I can't remember the last time I worked a field that had no lights... but if it came up, I LOVE Mark's solution.
Not me. Paints you into a corner, even though the announcement isn't absolute. It is different for every field. Some have trees or buildings to the SW, some are wide open.

And I can tell you from more than 40 years of experience umpiring and my real job, people hear and remember numbers better than any attached quantifier. You can soften it however you want, you are occasionally get an argument from someone who needs an extra inning to win.
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