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Originally posted by johnSandlin
The reason there is nothing online about it is because the umpire in chief made the decison before the meeting. I do not disagree with you response what so ever.
No mistake about it. Because all of us as umpires looked at each other strangely when heard the pitching announcement. We were taken back as well, but that is what we went with.
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So, balks were an immediate dead ball, coaches got 4 trips to the mound in the game and then had to replace the pitcher on every subsequent trip, moving shoulders to check runner is a balk, etc.?
Wow. I can't think of a more glaring example of an abuse of authority than a tournament UIC arbitrarily changing the nationally published rules of a tournament right before the tournament begins. I've umpired some USSSA qualifier tournaments and seen how coaches watch the tournament directors like a hawk to make sure they correctly enforce the *published* USSSA tournament rules. It's just astonishing that this guy got away with it at an actual USSSA World Series tournament.