Bunt fair or foul revisited ! !

[GarthB]

all in perception. Our perception of the ball rules our judgment.

Some have decided to take this issue to what I consider an absurd direction and would have us kneel down, bring out scientific instruments and measure precisely the position of the ball.

My point is and has been, and there are vision studies that confirm, when an orb object, say a baseball, is sitting 70 percent in a specific location, it will appear to the human eye, at most distances, to be entirely in that position. Thus a ball 70% fould will APPEAR to the normal umpire to be entirely foul whether on the ground or caught in the air above the basepath.

Both in the exercise of this thread and your example, most umpires, in real games, in real time, would yell foul. That is my point.


Good to hear from you. How are the Redwings doing this season?