Read about half of that before realizing you are crazy.

How can you expect a person to correctly call an imaginary box floating in 3 dimensional space while paying attention to a ball moving 90 mph??? They "have their own strike zone" due to the way they personally see the pitches. No two people are going to see them exactly the same. In terms of hitting the spots, they aren't "rewarding" a pitcher. It's just that when it's close, and a catcher doesn't have to move his mitt, it "sells" it as a strike more. It's just the human nature element. Hell, a catcher can frame up a ball off the plate to make it look like it was an inch or so closer than it was. Stuff is happening way to fast to see otherwise every single time.

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Posted by Paddyshack

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Posted on 6/22/17 at 10:17 am to KG6

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They "have their own strike zone" due to the way they personally see the pitches. No two people are going to see them exactly the same. In terms of hitting the spots, they aren't "rewarding" a pitcher. It's just that when it's close, and a catcher doesn't have to move his mitt, it "sells" it as a strike more

This guy played ball.

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Posted by Mo Jeaux

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Posted on 6/22/17 at 10:21 am to KG6

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How can you expect a person to correctly call an imaginary box floating in 3 dimensional space while paying attention to a ball moving 90 mph??? They "have their own strike zone" due to the way they personally see the pitches. No two people are going to see them exactly the same. In terms of hitting the spots, they aren't "rewarding" a pitcher. It's just that when it's close, and a catcher doesn't have to move his mitt, it "sells" it as a strike more. It's just the human nature element. Hell, a catcher can frame up a ball off the plate to make it look like it was an inch or so closer than it was. Stuff is happening way to fast to see otherwise every single time.

Meh. It's not about "hitting spots" or "painting corners". It's about, for example, some that have a low zone, while calling pitches at the letters a "ball", or vice versa.

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Posted by TriumphTiger

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Posted on 6/22/17 at 11:06 am to KG6

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How can you expect a person to correctly call an imaginary box floating in 3 dimensional space while paying attention to a ball moving 90 mph??? They "have their own strike zone" due to the way they personally see the pitches

I only clipped some of the post, but this is the answer. Ever see the Naked Gun where Frank takes the place of the ump and the first pitch comes in? Obviously umps are trained and experienced, but they're human.

Naked Gun - call at 1:25

There are pitches with nasty drops that I think are actually high across the plate, but drop right into the catcher's unmoved glove in the middle of the zone. Strike!

This post was edited on 6/22/17 at 11:11 am

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