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Mon Jun 09, 2008, 04:53am

fwump

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At a clinic earlier this year we were told by Rob Drake that MLB is discouraging the scissors out of fear of injury to the vertebrae of the neck from foul balls off the mask/HSM. Your head stays locked and rigid and the energy of the impact is absorbed by the neck.

Mike C

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