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Originally posted by Warren Willson
Now, now. You know better than that, Dave. Yes I was on that side, and I was right too!
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No, you were wrong. You claimed a part of the General Instructions was obsolete, when it has now been quoted in the
current MLB Umpires Manual. It has been a part of the rules since it was introduced, and by quoting it, the authors of the MLB Umpire Manual are validating that it remains just as relevant today as it was when it was first introduced.
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The MLB instruction might have its genesis in the General Instructions to Umpires in the same way that our current rules come from the Knickerbocker Rules of 1847, but that doesn't make them any less obsolete.
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Our current rules don't QUOTE the Knickerbocker Rules; the MLB Umpire Manual QUOTES the General Instructions to Umpires. That does, indeed, disprove the notion that the General Instructions are or ever were obsolete.
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The General Instructions to Umpires appearing in the rule book were superceded by the Instructions to Umpires contained in Section 7 of the PBUC Umpire Manual.
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If you replace "superceded" with "supplemented," then I would agree. The entire PBUC Manual is a supplement to the Official Rules. Section 7 should be treated no differently, and there is no such statement that it "supercedes" the General Instructions.
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It would be more accurate for you to say that the MLB statement arose from Section 7 of the PBUC Umpire Manual than to declare that it "...is based on a statement in the General Instructions to Umpires" that follows OBR 9.05, which version is of general historical interest only at this point.
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That is an astonishing statement. The MLB Umpire Manual citation you referenced cites and attributes a
direct quote to the General Instructions that follow OBR 9.05. Here it is, pasted directly from your post:
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As noted in the Official Baseball Rules, "Each umpire team should work out a simple set of signals, so the proper umpire can always right a manifestly wrong decision when convinced he has made an error."
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The sentence in quotes is
NOT from PBUC Section 7, it is from the OBR's General Instructions to Umpires. For you to say, with a straight face, that it would be more accurate to attribute the MLB Umpire Manual reference you cited to PBUC Section 7 rather than OBR General Instructions to Umpires is, as I said, astonishing. It makes me wonder if you've been taking lessons on citations and attributions from some of your eumpire.com colleagues.