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Originally posted by WindyCityBlue
I don't uderstand how we would be opening a can of worms by disagreeing with Carl's opinion. The last time I checked, I didn't see a memo that told me to refrain from communication with NFHS. We all have voices and some of us are more eloquent than others. This ruling stinks and I urge others to contact Hopkins, as well.
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I am amazed -- again -- that nobody actually reads my posts.
Show me where I'm on record as "fer" or "agin" Mr. Hopkins' ruling. Smitty -- Smitty's --it ain't there.
"Alls I said" was: "lodged" means "stuck," and the play I put into the BRD in 1994 represents what their rule means -- in English.
Mr. Hopkins told Tim Stevens he polled a lot of people about this play. You'll get the full story the first of next week when we run Tim's piece on this "controversy."
Now, show me where I advised anyone NOT to contact the NFHS. (I have not emailed Mr. Hopkins to lobby for either side.) "Alls I said" was: If the NHFS says that "lodged" means "stuck" (even momentarily), when that third-world play happens, it would be wrong NOT to call it the way the NFHS case book ruled. Rich Fronhesier made the same point. Go tell him he's an idiot for saying the same thing I'm chastised for.
It's kind of funny that nobody anywhere knows what I think about the ruling. What's more, you aren't going to know. When I feel a ruling is magnificiently bad and not supproted by logic, I generally say so -- in the BRD.
The OBR appeal rule is silly, out-dated -- and bad. The FED appeal rule is better, but it's not so good as it was.
I said NFHS umpires should call the shoulder-turn balk (the one that was changed this year). I never once announced whether I thought it was a good rule or a bad one. I think the change is bad in one respect: The FED pitcher cannot pick off from the wind-up position, so if he turns his shoulders to check a runner, nobody can be deceived illegally. But they kept the balk for that. Perhaps that will slide off into the dusk next year. (I will email Mr. Hopkins that opinion.)
I think it was Garth who pointed out I had not announced
my ruling. Would that everybody had paid attention to him on that point.
[Edited by Carl Childress on Sep 15th, 2004 at 01:26 PM]