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Old Thu Jul 13, 2017, 06:47am
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This must be one of those softball-only concepts.

I have no desire to get down to the top of the zone. I want to be locked at the same spot for every batter, head just above the top of the catcher's helmet.
Even when I started in baseball in 1966, it was the top of the zone.

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I don't need my eyes there to know where it is. Just like the outside corner or the knee.
So you can call the game with your eyes closed?
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Old Thu Jul 13, 2017, 07:21am
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Even when I started in baseball in 1966, it was the top of the zone.







So you can call the game with your eyes closed?


Things change.

What's more important now is that you lock in comsistently for every batter.

Your final comment is just silly. I don't put my eyes at the knees or outside corner and I can still call those. You know that's what I meant.
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Old Thu Jul 13, 2017, 08:28am
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I once experimented, BRIEFLY, with moving back a couple of steps to be the same distance from the plate regardless of catcher.

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