All AFA tournaments utilize the "clock starts when plate
conference ends." After conference I don't care how long
they chat on the side lines. Naturally later in the game
one of the coaches will want to hurry things up. If all
the delaying tactics being used are ones that have taken
place during the coarse of the game, then I just let things
go. (i.e., Suzzie tying shoe, pulling batting glove up,
coach talking to batter on way to box, fielders lazily going
back to position. These were all normal "flows" of the game,
so let 'em be.
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glen _______________________________
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
--Mark Twain.
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