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Originally posted by CoachJM
Mick,
Ahh. Then I take it you had not yet come across these "pearls" to be found in the latest FED interpretations.
If that is the case, may I offer my most sincere and profound apologies for calling your attention to them. I myself have experienced the rapidly fluctuating sensations of disbelief, outrage, and vertigo that reading them can cause, and I know how unpleasant that can be. It was most inconsiderate of me to be party to your having to suffer the same thing, and I should have known better. I will do my best to refrain from such cold and callous behavior in the future.
I must say, I can't remember the last time I laughed as hard as I did while reading your thoughts on the subject. Thank you.
I have two hypotheses of my own regarding the origin of these new interpretations:
1. It's an insidious plot to get more coaches ejected from games. I mean, how could a defensive manager not go ballistic if "Situation 3" actually occurred as described in a game - say during the bottom of the 7th while his team is holding a 1 run lead with two outs and a runner on 3rd - in a game he needed to win to make the state playoffs? I mean, could you blame him?
2. The person responsible for these radically creative new "insights" into the proper application of the rules of the great game of baseball has never actually seen a baseball game!!!!.
Of course, I must admit, I never considered LDUB's theory before.
Anyway, again my most sincere apologies.
BTW, did you get as far as Situations 6 & 7?? (Oops....did it again!)
JM
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Coach,
It is correct to assume that I do not regularly read Fed Baseball Rule changes and interps.
I am a registered Michigan NFHS ump, but I have never worked a fed game. There are, perhaps, a handful of teams on the outside of a 110 mile radius from Houghton.
I registered purely out of interest and the desire to understand. Having the books puts me into a "within two days if needed" position. 90% my hardball games are worked on the "if needed" basis, and I work with "other" rule books.
Indeed, the fact that you willed me to that interpretive dance on the NFHS Baseball site causes me to ponder how I may have injured your feelings in the past.
Too, I take exception to your hypotheses due to your implication that the writers of the interps had a plan or had an actual guess, or thought.
Yet, somehow, Coach, I accept your apologies for sending me to that amusement park.
mick