Tim,
First to your little "articulate" job. I would venture to say that if you look at my posting history, I am one of the more articulate writers here. Using one expletive to make a point does not make me inarticulate. I was trying to get your attention because....
While you may have answered the question, you made (wasted) five posts before answering it. In the post you did answer the question in, your long and rambling post probably served to confuse the young inexperienced umpire more than help him, as you took 45 lines and 446 words to explain what could have been explained like this,
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Originally posted by NFump
The rule would be 6.03: The batter's legal position shall be with both feet within the batter's box. If he hits the ball while he's out of the box it's an illegally batted ball and he's out. If there are runners they return to TOP base.
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You Tim and everyone who agrees with you are the ones that don't get it. Any one of you could have made one post that answered the question and stated that the TWP's are a waste of time.
Instead, you made 12 posts on this thread alone and the others who agree with you made 15 more posts. All that does is serve to keep this thread on the top of the board, initially giving it credibility and piquing the interest of those umpires who you don't want to read this post in the first place.
In total, everyone who thought this was a stupid post to ever discuss in the first place managed to post 27 times in this thread. For people who didn't think this post warranted discussion and didn't want to confuse younger umpires with it's content, you did a very good job posting to the thread, highlighting it to everyone on the board and making sure that most people who post to this board read the thread.
Good job! You managed to do exactly what you stated you didn't want to do.
(shaking head in disbelief)
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Originally posted by Tim C
TWPs are a waste of time, intellect and bandwidth.
Tee
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