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Old Sat Mar 31, 2001, 09:12am
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Originally posted by rex
Sorry I'm not a sheep. I don't and can't buy that answer.
You might be the messanger but that ain't the message. THERE IS A REASON.With people like Earl Weaver you just don't and can't say JUST BECAUSE. rex
rex:

1. So, you don't want to be a sheep, huh? When I spoke to Fitzpatrick, he didn't give ME a reason. I didn't ASK for a reason. I never do. That would make me a goat.

2. You need to move up on the highway and take a paper, rex. Earl Weaver doesn't manage anymore, and the PBUC makes ruling for MINOR league baseball.

3. Let's discuss one last issue.

It's 4.09(b). You were all hot to trot after my friend Thane Yennie brought that up, "Eureka! I've got it, by George, I have got it!"

You wrote: "Ya done brought it all together for me and ya don’t know what ya did. It’s not 7.10. You said “ending play”. It’s rule 4.09(b)."

I wrote: "That's a good try, but you don't get the cigarette. 4.09(b) deals only with an awarded base that may end the game. The whole purpose of 4.09 and PENALTY was to require players to advance after the winning run. It had become a custom for the batter-runner to simply go directly to the clubhouse."

That's didn't convince you (because Carl Childress wrote it, and who the hell is he? So...

You wrote: "4.09(b) and PENALTY say nothing of an appeal. Case plays yes but the rule no. But the case plays don't address what we've been talking about. Yet the last sentence of the PENALTY would make it the fourth out in our play."

And...

You wrote: "Rule 4.09(b) is enough. It tells me the B/R has got to run it out."

That one sucked in the EWS fellow, but he looks for any crumb in his attempts to prove he's better at baseball than I am. BTW: Give that Illinois guy credit. He didn't fall for your siren call. Of course, he's still straddling the fence. Oops, that's painful -- for some guys.

Therefore...

I went to a lot of trouble (800 words) to post the passage from the JEA.

And then you wrote .... nothing.

So I reminded you last night.

And then you wrote .... nothing.

So I'm reminding you again. You owe me something like: "Geesh, Guys, how could I have been so ignorant. Next time I'll believe Carl when he tells me something about baseball."

That's just common courtesy, Rex, uh, I mean "little r" rex. Is that symbolic, I wonder?
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