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If you read my first post you will better understand what I said. Here is what I said.
"SNIP"
"Official ruling? Only if you do Minor League or NCAA ball. I don't. It is not a force and it is not an appeal. I don't buy it.......YET. G."
I'll stand by that.
Yes, the NCAA has stated, in THEIR official interpretation, that the batter runner going to first is indeed a force out.
It is THEIR written interpretation for THEIR written rule in THEIR Association. That is what I said.
If you want to follow the NCAA ruling that a B/R can be put out on a force play in any Baseball other than the NCAA and probably the Minor Leagues, be my guest. You have that right. I simply do not accept it under OBR, just like I do not follow the OFFICIAL FED rules in my H/S games. We use OBR. Aren't the fed RULES official? Of course they are BUT ONLY WHEN YOU ARE PLAYING UNDER FED RULES, Get my point.
It is my opinion that this first came up in a ruling from the J/R Interpretation book. Mike Fitzpatrick of PBUC accepted that ruling and then NCAA followed them.
Either Mike Fitzpatrick or Carl Childress said, at the time of the ruling, that MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL has not accepted their ruling. Major League Baseball is in no way bound by the rulings made by PBUC. They don't have to DISCLAIM them. PBUC has as much to do with Major League ball as the NCAA does. They are separate bodies and they make their own rulings.
J/R carries the ruling as a NON-APPEAL. When Rick Roder was questioned about this ruling in an e-mail exchange he said, "It is NOT a force and it is NOT an appeal". Rest my case.
Their are, I believe, five possible appeal situations in the OBR and this IS NOT one of them. As I said before, I, me, do not accept the ruling, Major League baseball doesn't The OBR doesn't, our Association doesn't and our interpreter doesn't and a whole bunch of other people do not. Please don't let me stop you from accepting it, it's your call. G.
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