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Old Mon Jul 14, 2003, 11:56am
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally posted by Dakota
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Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA
A ball 4" in diameter is approaching an adult player with a $300 piece of equipment in his hand at aproximately 5 MPH while the batter's own team is probably doing enough yelling for everyone and he is going to complain about the catcher alerting the defense?

Give me a break.
Big difference from fast pitch, where at the top levels the batter has about 1/4 sec to make a decision on a pitch and begin to swing or not.
And how much is the catcher going to get out of their mouth in that 1/4 second? Besides, other than idle chatter at the adult levels, FP catchers have a bit more to worry about then distracting the batter.

Besides, we weren't discussing FP.
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