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View Poll Results: What are your feelings concerning this change?
I like it 1 4.55%
I don't like it 14 63.64%
I would like it if there were no height restriction on the pitch 6 27.27%
Undecided 1 4.55%
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Old Fri Jan 26, 2007, 11:20am
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And, if you have to look up at the 12 foot level, or even 10 feet; your head will be moving while the ball is in flight. I don't even think any drop is needed in SP, standing erect as we have is fine.
A fine example of an umpire making their job more difficult. Stay up and miss half the strikes.
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Old Fri Jan 26, 2007, 05:17pm
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A fine example of an umpire making their job more difficult. Stay up and miss half the strikes.
It was the taught mechanic, the last I heard, and do you really think I miss any strikes?
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Old Fri Jan 26, 2007, 06:02pm
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It was the taught mechanic, the last I heard, and do you really think I miss any strikes?
It hasn't been taught that way for the past twenty years and, yes, I think you probably do.
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Old Sat Jan 27, 2007, 01:45am
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It was the taught mechanic, the last I heard, and do you really think I miss any strikes?

Yes.... you do..and I would love to know who taught you this.............
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Old Sat Jan 27, 2007, 01:58pm
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Take a joke, guys, as in " " above. IOW, going along with the frequent comments that our job is to call strikes and get the 42.

If I'm wrong about the mechanic, then I'm wrong. That's how I remember it and I'll try to figure out from where or whom. Thanks.
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Old Sat Jan 27, 2007, 09:25pm
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I see that ASA is still selling the video "Slow Pitch Plate Mechanics and the One Man System" through their website.

Somehow I'm having a hard time imagining that the video has been edited to reflect the "new" mechanic described here!
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