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Originally posted by Dave Hensley
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Originally posted by mick
But, it remains that given the rules provided by Little League, young umpires are not well-armed due to the editors of Little League publishings and training.
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I researched the OBR and LL versions of each rule you cited, and they are identical, verbatim.
There are some LL rules for which your point is valid; the subject of this thread is, however, not one of them.
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One final time on this thread.
13-, 16- or 20-yr.-old umpires do not have access to your information or resources. Their emphasis is on the paycheck and not the intricacies of Baseball's unwritten words. "Just is" is the rule provided in the discussion. and I can live with that as I have for many years. Why would you expect someone's kid as a brand new umpire know that stuff when it is not in the book, or to be as smart as you are by merely reading the rule book?
And, of course LL Baseball is based on OBR so they obviously should be the same or similar. The original play may not be properly determined base on the words of merely the Little League Baseball rule book. You must know more than the words in the book; you must know the "Just is", the common practice, the popular opinion.
It ain't in the book. Saying it's the same will not put it in the book.
mick