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Old Fri Jun 09, 2006, 06:27pm
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Originally Posted by BigUmp56
I think we have a few moronic commentators like Joe Morgan and Tim McCarver to thank for some of the grief we take when we ring up a batter on an appeal from inside. Too often I'll hear a coach complain that there was no way I could see if the barrel of the bat broke the front plane of the plate. I'm sure some of this comes directly from listening to ignorant commentators who have no idea how we judge an attempt.



Tim.
I don't think you can blame this one on Morgan or McCarver on this one(you can on a lot of other topics!!). Every game that the two of them work are either 4 or 6 man, so there is never an instance where they would get help from the inside umpire.
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