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Old Fri Mar 08, 2013, 03:42pm
Manny A Manny A is offline
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Originally Posted by dash_riprock View Post
All codes require the umpire to call "play" to make the ball live (NCAA says "call or indicate").
No debate here.

I just don't buy the argument that an umpire who forgets to call "play" one time that it was required somehow makes that umpire poor. We all have brain cramps every now and then.
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