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Old Sat Apr 06, 2013, 01:41am
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Originally Posted by tw1ns View Post
agree...shouldn't have used the word 'conference'....just getting fed up with all the hand slapping and such....like in basketball when everyone feels it is necessary to step in and slap the free throw shooters hand after every free throw...even when they miss one. play the game, make the plays, act like you should make the plays without all the hoopla. old school, i guess. and i know we have recourse for actions that delay play.
Oh boy....if you are really that sick of players enjoying the game, which is what they are doing, then maybe you shouldn't officiate it. Also, softball fields don't have a "mound", an in-the-air hit to the SS is most likely a pop out and not a fly out, and this goes on in just about every level of softball there is. The only time we worry about it is if we are in a timed game, and the team that's getting together is taking too long and there is an issue with the clock. In that case, you instruct them to move it along.

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