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Wobster said " When I am umpiring, your team gets one warning for leaving early, and then they start getting outs. We used to have coaches like you that took advantage of the rules, but we had to implement this rule to take care of it. This type of coaching, if you want to call it that, would get you a reprimand by myself (I am on the board) and the league president. You would not be coaching next year. You are obviously teaching the kids that bending the rules and winning is more important than sportsmanship. You stated yourself that you send the kids early, knowingly BREAKING THE RULES.
Of course, that is just around here, in Indiana, where we try to teach the fundamentals of the game, not how to run up the score and see how much we can push the rules."
Well, I certainly am glad I'm not in your league then, because you obviously don't use all of the facts before you start making your decisions. If you had read ALL of my posts, you would see that I am against this practice and was giving an example for illustration.
Secondly, had you read the rule, you would see that the runner indeed CAN leave the base early, but just has to suffer the possible consequences, which is not necessarily an out at all.
I am also a board member and have officiated for years myself. I also know you do not speak for the whole state of Indiana, and I'm sure they are glad of that.
I guess most folks skim my posts, assume I'm a coach going for the win at all costs and start ragging on me. I will not try to gain any advantage by abusing the absurdity this rule. In fact, I'm really trying to show how this rule does not apply to Machine Pitch, so nobody will try to do so. It happened last night, but I'm pretty sure (at least hope) it was inadvertant.
So can we go back to my original question? Does this rule make sense? Should it be applied to Machine Pitch?
[Edited by MarionTiger on Jun 8th, 2004 at 03:02 PM]
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