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Nubie, take a deep breath and relax...you're starting to sound like the guy that sits around the house wearing a tin-foil hat with all the blinds drawn.
The broader issues here are not only about trust (on the part of coaches, players) and integrity (on the part of umps, organizers and officials), but fairness. There are some rules of any game or sport that can be ignored, given low 'priority', etc. that, by doing so, favors neither team. I didn't write the rulebook, but many of us assume that the IP rules were written to prevent an unfair advantage for a pitcher and her team over another. This should NEVER be allowed. If governing bodies don't like the rule, remove it...all the girls can be retrained to leap five feet in the air and whip the ball side arm...let the batters learn to deal with it...I don't care. But the bottom line is (or, rather, should be)---if its still in the book, enforce it. Any other approach to calling the game is a slippery slope...what will blue do when the UIC hints, for example, that "there will be no IPs AND no 'look back ' rule violations in this tournaments"? Where does it stop?
(I know, I know...I'm being naive...in the real world lots of rules are ignored...how many cops ticket jaywalkers these days, even though that particular rule is still in the books).
Just my 2 cents. Don't ask me how the weather is here (I'm in Buffalo, not CA!)
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