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Old Sun Dec 26, 2004, 10:06am
Dave Hensley Dave Hensley is offline
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I agree with Carl the MLBUM ruling makes new law, and in my opinion it is bad law, in that it so obviously contradicts the established "case law" from decades of prior practice. It explicitly contradicts the ruling given in the PBUC Manual, and recommends an umpiring practice - revising a base award in mid-play - that is guaranteed to look confusing and awkward in practice.

While I think the MLBUM is a great resource that resolves a number of legitimate ambiguities and rules debates that have raged for years (e.g., it definitively resolves the proper ruling for a runner hit by a batted ball in all cases), in this particular case I think the MLBUM ruling has needlessly introduced a glaring inconsistency with other published authorities on an issue that wasn't controversial in the first place. They went and fixed something that wasn't broke. Sheesh.
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