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Old Mon Jul 07, 2014, 11:21am
Manny A Manny A is offline
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Originally Posted by AremRed View Post
Does this mean players need to change what they would do because of possible replay? Like P2 tagging the running instead of just applying the force?
I doubt it will turn into that.

But imagine if F2 had caught the ball for the force at home, then try to apply a tag, and the runner knocks the ball out from his mitt, allowing other runners to advance and score. And on replay, the force is upheld because the tag of the runner at first was missed. So F2 made a tag that was unnecessary. Could something like that happen, thanks to replay? You're darn tooting. It is growing into something more than just getting the calls right.
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