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Old Wed Oct 19, 2011, 03:53pm
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seriously blue? (another of my fav. coach questions).... but no, seriously?. read the last few lines of the OP and tell me what the PU was focusing on?.
I don't read into his statement that he NEVER looked at his primary ... just that he wasn't when he should have been - I can see how you read it that way though.

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and a parting shot.... since when is angle EVER irrelevant? .... EVER?..... maybe im old skool..... angle is everything.
Ever? On a play like this one. Angle is critical on tags, often on catches, occasionally on forces. But on THIS play, where PU's primary is not a tag, catch, or force ... how would angle have affected him at all? Even if it would, 3 steps one way or the other changes his angle on a play that's 85ish feet away, what, 7 degrees? I can't even imagine a play where 7 degrees is the difference between seeing and not seeing obstruction, 85 feet away.
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Old Wed Oct 19, 2011, 04:11pm
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I was about 15' up 1st base line and about 6' off the line.
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Old Fri Oct 21, 2011, 03:52pm
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I don't read into his statement that he NEVER looked at his primary ... just that he wasn't when he should have been - I can see how you read it that way though.

Ever? On a play like this one. Angle is critical on tags, often on catches, occasionally on forces. But on THIS play, where PU's primary is not a tag, catch, or force ... how would angle have affected him at all? Even if it would, 3 steps one way or the other changes his angle on a play that's 85ish feet away, what, 7 degrees? I can't even imagine a play where 7 degrees is the difference between seeing and not seeing obstruction, 85 feet away.
hrmmm... the greater the distance looked at , the more a lesser degree change is going to impact what you can or cannot see? ........ epiphany....

I'm not gonna quibble about this any more...... we can discuss .034" and .00005 degrees till we are blue in the face...

I simply contend that, the poster was in the wrong place BECAUSE he was trying to obtain an un-needed piece for his partner (pulled foot) thereby not focusing on his primary and missing the possible obstruction.... possible, because the coach said it happend... more possible because the umpire couldnt say it didnt happen.

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