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Despite video replay, which sport do you believe is the most difficult to referee?
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Posted on 12/31/2021 6:44:50 PM PST by InvisibleChurch

Football must be the hardest, players are spread out all over the field.


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To: Vermont Lt

So, I can use Judo on anybody trying to get the ball from.
Awesome.


81 posted on 12/31/2021 8:34:44 PM PST by Jonty30 (I love giving directions, because it is like me to tell people where to go and how to get there.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

WINNER.


82 posted on 12/31/2021 8:35:52 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: daniel1212

I know it when I see it.

And I see it, a lot.


83 posted on 12/31/2021 9:11:35 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: InvisibleChurch

Used to be Major League Baseball when the likes of Billy Martin were around.

Now the umps just give em the heave ho and thats that.

Wasnt for the umps, baseball wouldnt be worth watching.


84 posted on 12/31/2021 9:26:19 PM PST by crz
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To: Tupelo

> I think motor racing

Especially F1, even with a panel. They have all the tech but meanwhile the race goes on, there’s ridiculous money in the sport, and the nuances and timing of a call have massive impact.


85 posted on 12/31/2021 9:43:43 PM PST by No.6
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Underwater basket weaving.


86 posted on 12/31/2021 10:09:15 PM PST by TrumpForeva
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To: InvisibleChurch

Baseball

1) Explain the rules for a Balk

2) There are rules for 1 in million type plays umps have to know

3) Unlike other sports where the playing field/area/floor is same from venue to venue, each baseball stadium is different and has its own rules. I.e. Read the rules on hitting the roof at the current Astrodome.


87 posted on 12/31/2021 10:09:17 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Naked Curling,
without a doubt!!!

Even the refs are naked.
A lot of snap judgements.


88 posted on 12/31/2021 10:13:35 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

All of them. Making decisions quickly is hard.

See post number.


89 posted on 12/31/2021 10:16:06 PM PST by ReaganGeneration2 (Widespread belief in asymptomatic spread of a low-risk virus hastened the end of the West by 100 yrs)
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To: Kevmo

Good point on baseball, because every plate umpire has a slightly different strike zone.


90 posted on 12/31/2021 10:22:17 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: tet68

Women’s naked curling. It has to be The hardest to referee, I now it’s hard for me. 😜


91 posted on 12/31/2021 10:23:38 PM PST by Equine1952
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To: Equine1952

Oh yeah, Happy NewYear FReepers. Be safe in 2022. Ya’ll are needed here and Thanks.


92 posted on 12/31/2021 10:25:59 PM PST by Equine1952
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To: Bryan24
Basketball, and it isn’t close.

I agree. Try spotting the difference between a blocking foul and a charging foul. Most of the refs can't even tell.

93 posted on 12/31/2021 10:43:26 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: Retain Mike

When I was a kid we used to argue all the time about sports stuff. We had a rule where you struck out if you took 3 swings & missed. No walks.

One day I propped a garbage can against a backstop and we said if it goes inside the garbage can, it’s a strike. Outside, it’s a ball. We called it ‘garbage ball’.

It was amazing how many times I got on base after that.


94 posted on 12/31/2021 11:08:05 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: InvisibleChurch
Competitive swimming is by far the most-difficult sport discipline to referee!

Spotting those indistinct clouds of yellow forming in a giant basin filled with chlorinated water must be a killer!

Regards,

95 posted on 01/01/2022 1:37:21 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: HIDEK6

I think I threw an almost-forgotten gerund in there, too, along with participles and infinitives. But at the very least I had a complete sentence.


96 posted on 01/01/2022 6:36:10 AM PST by Migraine
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To: Jonty30

When I was playing…that was pretty much the case as far as I recall. My brain got a little fuzzy after a couple of years. Ha ha.


97 posted on 01/01/2022 10:46:49 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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