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Old Tue Feb 16, 2016, 02:21pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by teebob21 View Post
The rationale given was that increasing the distance between umpires and coaches between innings is supposed to reduce unnecessary interaction. I'm neither in support nor opposition for this line of thought, but I will comment that it works
I find that such a worry isn't worth the toothpick on which a coach is chewing compared to the possible benefit available to a crew of umpires who can routinely communicate during a game.
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