Natural Stance

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Originally Posted by canadaump6

I do not appreciate being spoken to that way.

Tough

Saying that "it's a judgement call" is just a way to hide the fact that you do not in fact know the rule.

Wrong again, rat-breath: just cheese to go with your whine. The RULE is: what your "natural stance", ie: when you are prepared to strike at a pitch, IS A JUDGMENT CALL.

And why did you put me on your ignore list?

I haven't [yet].

Ah ha, now this makes more sense. I swing from my crouched stance, so the umpire should be calling based on the way I stand in my stance.

More sense to you, perhaps, but your interpretation of tcarilli's cite is wrong, beside being self-serving. See comments [mine and others above] about "exagerated" crouches. I have seen players come to the plate, take a couple "loosening" swings, then settle into a "batting crouch" such that they can touch their elbows to their knees: more often than not, they have no intention whatever of swinging the bat at ANYTHING - they are there to draw a walk. Well, I for one am not gonna reduce the "window" for strikes to the literal size of a letterbox.