[CQ-Contest] Re: Dinged Good QSOs

[George Fremin III - K5TR]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:28:04PM -0700, Leigh S. Jones wrote:
> 
> Let's see if I've got this right... and let's try a sports analogy.
> In America we play baseball, and when the pitcher throws a ball one
> inch outside of the strike zone the computer figures that he was
> trying to throw over the plate and counts it as a ball rather than a
> strike.  So far so good.
> 
> But then when the pitcher throws the ball wild, and maybe he strikes
> the batter, then the computer figures he was trying to throw the
> batter out at first base and the batter got in the way of the ball so
> the computer calls the batter out.  But then when the sponsor, let's
> say it's Bud Light in this case, says that there's a penalty for
> illegally stealing first base, then the score's Bud Light zero, batter
> minus three.
> 

No.

But you do bring up an interesting example.

In baseball you try to pitch in the strike zone. (get the call exchange right)

If you miss the strike zone by a little bit (miss the exchange) it is a ball.

If you miss badly enough and hit the batter (miss the call) the batter
gets on base without a hit.

It seems to me that the rules in baseball were set up to penalize 
the pitcher for hitting the batter with a pitch in a severe enough 
manner that he will try to avoid hitting a batter with a pitch.


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