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Originally posted by ozzy6900
Steve, you have to understand that any changes to OBR have to be approved by the MLB Players Union. You can cry all you want about errors but unless they agree, no changes can be made! This is the fault of youth organizations that claim ORB for their rules. Even when youth leagues do use ORB, I always hear "We use MLB rules except for slide and avoid". Why don't these people just use FED? Anyway, for all those who cry about the mistakes in ORB, write to the Player's Union and see if they will listen to you!
Not being snotty, that's just the way it is!
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Ozzy,
I wasn't crying about it. I'm just tired of reading, "well the BRD says" or "Jim Evans says", when not many have this resource. I have no problem just calling it the way the book says.
You sound like a fan of Fed rules, right? I am not. I prefer real baseball. I like working leagues that go strictly by the OBR, without the slide or avoid connotation. Granted, these are all adult leagues, and few of them let you run over people these days. But all of Pony Baseball (with modifications for level, naturally) uses OBR for its playing rules, except for slide or avoid. Here we have a lot of "horsey ball", from Pinto to Palomino, and everything in between.
I find Fed rules to be "artificial baseball", with all the silly differences. I guess many are for safety, but I haven't seen much of a difference in safety in 20 years of games with both sets of rules. I would rather put up with all the errors in the OBR, than to have every league switch to the Fed.
Steve