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echo: ml_baseball
to: TERRY MAY
from: MARK YODER
date: 1996-10-26 18:53:00
subject: Fan Interference - Tarrasco

While courting the Morris Dancers, Terry May said:
 PS>> It looked to me that Tarrasco had misjudged the ball.  I thought it
 PS>> would have hit a little above where he could have jumped.
 TM> If it hit above where he could have jumped, it WOULD have been a HR.
The difference here is between "could have jumped" and "would have jumped."  
He is obviously capable of jumping to the top of the wall... HOWEVER -- As I 
said before, if you look at the replay, where Tarasco "COULD HAVE" jumped and 
"WOULD HAVE" jumped are nowhere close to the same.
Upon impact of the ball into the kid's glove, Tarasco was on the ground, not 
prepared to jump, arm *not* completely extended skyward and the ball was less 
than three feet above him and on it's downward trajectory.
No way in heck that Tarasco could have jumped, in the last fraction of a 
second that it takes the ball to fly less than three feet, the required 
height to catch the ball.
 -= .\\ark =-
... "Women and elephants never forget." Parker
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