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Originally posted by SanDiegoSteve
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Originally posted by LDUB
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Originally posted by SanDiegoSteve
Maybe I'm just dense (not), but many of their rule differences don't make sense.
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I told you, it lists the reasons in the front of the book.
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Originally posted by SanDiegoSteve
Every year they change one thing or the other, change wordings, add emphasis.
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You would prefer the never changing OBR?
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Originally posted by SanDiegoSteve
Just when you get the rules straight, they change them again. Most umpires I know feel the same way, they prefer the OBR over the NF rules.
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Yeah, those 4 rule changes are really hard to remember.
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Luke, maybe you didn't understand what I said. I said that I don't care for Federation Rules, and the majority of umpires that I know feel the same way. Here, we call High School Baseball "High School", but we call all other levels of ball "baseball". That should give you an idea of our disdain of NF rules. We follow the rules, enforce the rules, but we sure don't care for them at all.
Yes I prefer the OBR, even though rules occasionally are changed, case in point, the ever changing strike zone definition. At least the Fed finally is allowing pitchers to turn their shoulders before coming set. That was one asinine rule, for example.
It isn't that the annual rule changes are hard to remember, it's just that they are usually petty, insignificant changes which are totally unnecessary.
By the way, here's another rule we don't much care for, in fact, it is a huge joke among veteran umps here:
The option of restricting the coach to the dugout instead of ejecting him. Nobody in our association (which, by the way, is one of the oldest, and most respected nationwide) would even consider restricting the coach. Please tell me you have never restricted a coach to the bench!
Steve
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Not to belabor a point, but there is always a reason FEd puts their rules in.
Example - restrict a coach because it might keep the team from a forfeit.
Maybe in your area there are so many coaches per team that if they lost the head coach they don't have to forfeit, but in our areaa, we have to have one coach per team or there is a forfeit. (problem is some teams only have one coach - so you have a choice to either restrict or forfeit)
So that's why the rule. I've never had to use it, but there's a reason why its there.
Actually in our areas, more or the teams play FED than OBR even down into the 14-15's select ball teams etc.,
Thanks
David