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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mcrowder
[B]To me, and many I work with, "imminent" tends to mean that the ball is going to beat the runner there. If the runner beats the ball there, the play was not "imminent".
If we use this as our guidepost, then the word imminent has no meaning. Either the ball beat the runner or it didn't. This would make FED more like OBR. But FED does use the word imminent, so we do have to interpret its meaning.
Lets also keep in mind, using FED rules, I would believe that a quality umpire would want to determine if the runner was "legally attempting to avoid the fielder". (8-4-2-c) Just because the ball beat the runner does not mean we are going to have interference.
[Edited by smoump on Mar 10th, 2006 at 01:28 PM]
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