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Originally Posted by meaubry
Umpires use judgement to determine touching / tagging out a runner all of the time, even the best make mistakes and sometimes arguements occur.
Why put someone in that position when it could be avoided? It's hard enough to get people to volunteer to be a ref, it won't be any easier when they are told that matches may be determined by a spilt second decision.
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Umpires also get paid for making these split second game altering decisions.
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Originally Posted by meaubry
Oh yeah, one other thing - Do ties go to the runner?
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This is FIRST - ties always go to the runner
Also repeating the fatal flaw to the baseball analogy: Baseball players aren't wearing full length skirts when they run the bases.
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