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Originally posted by His High Holiness
If you enforce the OBR interpretation in a high school game even if it is in violation of a FED rule, few if anyone will notice. OTOH, if your enforce an obscure and idiosyncric FED rule, everyone will think that it is the umpire that is incompetent. You won't make any coach's lists that way and your association may sustain a black mark.
Peter
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If you enforce a rule, someone will know. You will find inconsistency if you do that. Many of the FED Rules are in place because FED coaches did everything to find loopholes. You cannot use OBR Rules in FED games when the kids might mainly play under FED Rules. I do not do a lot of summer baseball, but there are a lot of HS leagues that are supported by the schools. Many leagues play under FED Rules. So these players and coaches are playing under the same set of rules from the spring to the summer. Not everything they see on TV is understood by the players and coaches.
Peace