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I am just a simple guy.
Professional leagues use OBR with many sources to back it up. The OBR rules are written simply for a reason. The reason is so they CAN BE intrepreted and used by a cross secrion of organizations.
Professional leagues administer and rule in one way. People like Jim Evans write big, big books to help people understand the way professional sports (baseball) look at their use of the book.
Jaksa/Roder is another example of an accepted book (although with great reservation since it has not developed along the scholarly line of JEA.)
Each umpire in MLB is also given a notebook of official directions.
NONE of these actually are adopted by my local Men's League.
What occurs is common to law. As all our BSM (err, attorneys) will attest that law can become the precedant through accepted use over a long period of time. Tradition.
And that is how SOME laws (rules) develop.
Over the past 15 years Carl has made interpretations about rules. His BRD documents simply tell how those rulings were developed. Many have become accepted by the OFFICIAL rules source. Now that does NOT mean MLB or OBR it means maybe the NCAA or the local teams playing in the A & P League.
Bfair's arguement is the age old arguement of "show me the cite, man" and that isn't ALWAYS possible.
It maybe different where you are but I do not have a league that hands me a full, three ringed binder out lining every possible item that the rules of THEIR league encompass.
What we miss here is that people like, Carl, Warren, Jim P and Bob Pariseau do us all a wonderful assitance in having the passion that they show for research and understanding rules.
I am a neo-romantic, I also know the rules. I can allow myself the luxury of smply accepting sometimes rather than trying to tear down the tower.
All you rocket scientists can go on with the battle . . . for me it is much easier, "Play Ball!"
Just The Way I See It
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