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Hmmm,
Steve:
I have posted this about a million times:
Fed makes rules for four reasons:
1) Player safety -- While the players might have made it through other leagues while learning the game FED recognizes two important factors: a) High school aged player run from 14 to 19 years old and there is a serious difference in the size of players in any one FED game and b) all FED plyers have parents which in turn have lawyers.
2) Player participation -- FED wants the "high school sports expereince" to be all it can be for as many children as possible. Additonal ways for players to enter, leave and reenter open more opportunity for all types of players.
3) Game Speed-up rules -- Now I don't know one umpire that is against shorter games. There is an issue that in some pocket areas of the United States 7 inning high school games take over 3 hours to play -- ON A REGULAR BASIS.
4) Weakest Link Umpire Rules -- Sorry but not all umpires have the same capabilities and conditioning. FED has attempted to make rules that require less and less judgment and less and less physical activity from umpires. Face it, they have no idea if Smitty will be able to cover a triple from "A" because of physical limitations.
Now Steve, you seem to put a lot of importance in your local association. You name drop continually of players that enventually become MLB guys.
I doubt seriously if San Diego is that much better than many of the areas where noted posters on this site work.
"If" names of players are so important to you, every time I write F3 (insert Jon Olrude or Greg Brock), every time I say F4 (insert Harold Reynolds), every time I say F2 (insert Tom Lapkin), every time I saw F6 (insert Kevin Stocker), every time I saw F5 (insert John Elway) . . . I think you get my drift.
You mentioned once that you had worked over 40 players that went on the MLB baseball . . . well I worked over 60 does that mean Portland and Seattle are better than your area . . . nope, it just means I am older.
WCB says he wants to call rules that he "sees in print" . . . he will not accept that the Interpretation Newsletter is official and that's fine . . . like the rules or not I will call FED games as they have asked them to be called.
Tee
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