Thu Mar 21, 2013, 12:42pm
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Originally Posted by tcannizzo
Had one this past weekend. I was BU in C, PU called IFF at the top of the relatively high fly. At the time IFF was called, I thought the ball would land just a few feet to my left, but by the time it came down it landed about 10 feet directly behind 2B, where ball hit ground just out of F6's reach, probably 10 feet away from where I thought it would land.
The wind was definitely a factor, but the wind is so unpredictable, I don't know how to account for it. Wind can start and stop on a dime. And it can go both ways making a fly ball harder - or easier to catch.
I am inclined not to consider the wind, except in some TWP.
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And if F4 or F8 had been nearby where it descended; instead of F6, how would you have applied "ordinary effort"?
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