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Old Tue Jun 21, 2005, 11:09am
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Originally posted by mcrowder
JJ - did you read the rest of this post? The other posts DID answer your question. Why do you still have a question as to the reason for the difference? They are applying different rules... therefore, different rulings and different results.
I think JJ is asking "WHY are the rules different?"

That is, suppose we were developing rules for HS baseball. We have these great ideas that malicious contact and illegal slides should not be allowed. Everyone agrees. Now we, as the rules committee, need to decide on the penalty for violating these rules. Would we come up with "in one case a run scores and in another it does not?"

OR, given that the various rules committees through the years have come up with these penalties, should we petition to have one of them changed?
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