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Old Tue Nov 08, 2005, 01:08pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally posted by bellnier

My gripe (I'm NOT railing, though) is the uneven application of existing rules at upper levels of play, decided not by umps or even by the UIC (as I learned today) but by tournament directors or league officials that apparently know better than those folks that spend many hours working and reworking rules and POEs so that the game is played as fairly as achievable.

Where did anyone say there was an "uneven application"?
Don't read things into a post that are not there.

Do you think a coach at a college showcase wants to sit there an watch umpire's call girls illegal all day? The coaches know what they are looking for in a pitcher and they know if they are illegal or not.

This is just one of many different circumstances where umpires may be given instructions contrary to the Championship Play rules.

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