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Originally posted by Justme
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Originally posted by SanDiegoSteve
Justme,
Every league we work here (many), except for high school, uses OBR, and that is our only required reference. If you used PBUC interps here, coaches (and most umpires for that matter) would say, "what's a PBUC?". The PBUC is for Minor League Baseball, and certainly isn't recognized by most amatuer programs. The same goes for the BRD. Tell a high school coach you're quoting a BRD interpretation, and you'll get the same thing, "what is a BRD, and what does it have to do with the rules?" That is my point. Why don't we just put it in the rules and be done with it. It's great that we have the resources, but not everyone else is familiar with them, that's all I'm saying.
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Steve,
If there's a question as to how a rule should be applied how is it decided in the leagues you work in? If each umpire decides for themselves and comes up with different applications, I can see that causing more problems with the coaches due to the lack of consistent calls from one umpire to another.
Around here we do not announce to the coaches that we are using a particular resource (PBUC, BRD, etc.) to help us maintain the consistency of our calls throughout the entire association. We umpire buy the rule book but where the rule might cause different umpires to apply the rule differently we do use other established references. Consistency is a good thing.... it keeps the Gods of Baseball happy.
It's true, not everyone is familiar with the PBUC, BRD, FED Case Book or whatever, in fact a lot of people involved in baseball are not even that familiar with the rules. But they're still out there playing, coaching and umpiring.
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I was pretty much being facetious when I wrote the part about telling the coach my resource. I would never tell the coach that I got something out of a book other than the rule book. I was just making a point that these interpretation manuals are unknown to most players, coaches, fans, and umpires.
Tee, we go over the new rule changes every January, and we take the Fed test every year. That's about it. Then we have our usual bull sessions to argue rules and tell sea stories. The rookies at least get the benefit of Mike Winters for an instructor. I sneak into the back of his classes whenever I can.
Edited to correct the spelling of facetious. Thanks W.
[Edited by SanDiegoSteve on Nov 18th, 2005 at 05:17 AM]