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Originally posted by WhatWuzThatBlue
from Carl's fingertips to your brain...
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Also, a coach can be in a wheel chair in the box - no feet on the ground at all! I bet you didn't know that.
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"Do you require the coach to designate a captain and tell you who he is?"
* Nope, never have and it has never been a problem. In fact, Im usually tickled pink when a player announces that he is the Captain. I ask him if I should salute and he usually laughs and says that hes just happy to hand me the line up card. I dont do a cup check either I usually just ask if everyone is properly equipped and ready to play. I just didnt want you asking me if I check for the mandatory cup on the catcher, since its in the rules too!
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The Forum has moved on. Two points: First, wipe out all the earlier "plays." That 2.22.1a is different from the original play in this thread
IS NOT RELEVANT to my question.
Second: It's enough to point to only one of your answers (though there are others) to prove that you, too, selectively enforce FED rules.
Each of the two teams consists of at least nine players throughout the game ... one of whom must be designated captain. (FED 1-1-1)
There's no wiggle-room here. You say it's not a problem. I agree. I treat it the same way. But I don't go around bragging that I'm a perfect rulebook umpire either. BTW: I check for the cups as the books requires: "Coach, are your players equipped legally?" (I don't ignore that rule.) But there's no such question required for discovering who the captain is. You don't do it; I don't do it. That one rule we both ignore.
We
all selectively enforce the rules of the game. Only [fill in the blank] suggest they do otherwise.
Finally, listen carefully:
There is nothing about the current rules that I don't know!
As the old saying goes, "No brag. Just fact!"
If you care, you may read my separate post on the event you bet I didn't know.