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Old Mon May 13, 2013, 01:46pm
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If you can't begin to imagine how a not perfect DDB mechanic might be confused with a not perfect out mechanic...
Oh, well, if you're going to change things up significantly by stating the mechanics are "not perfect", or the umpire gets confused and raises the wrong hand, then everything goes out the window. Using that logic, we could argue that the "flying Safe" that some umpires tend to use looks too much like a Time/Foul mechanic, so we should change the Safe mechanic so that it looks like a self-hug.

If the mechanics are done properly, however, I still don't see how they can be confused. One has the entire left arm completely horizontal. The other has the right arm bent at a 90-degree angle. Shame on the players and coaches that can't figure out the difference. Besides, it's not our job to ensure our properly-executed signals don't confuse players and coaches.

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And then you give another example of how a DDB mechanic was confused with a foul mechanic.
And I did that to provide a better example of why someone could argue why FED probably did away with the old DDB mechanic.

My guess, however, as to why FED got rid of it is so that baseball umpires are consistent in all codes.
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