Fri Feb 08, 2013, 11:56pm
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Get away from me, Steve.
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 15,785
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bluehair
Ball in F2 mitt in plenty of time, runner is going straight in, getting a foot through to the plate while a tag is being applied, you can't see which happen first in 3BLX (you can't even see the tag, your view is blocked by F2). Best view here would be 1BLX.
I've met umpires that only used 1BLX, then learned the benefit of 3BLX and now think that 3BLX is the only place to be. You can't just scrap 1BLX. Start at POP, read, and move.
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Except that you take one read step from 3BLX and it all opens up.
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