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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
This is what happens when you change a perfectly good (OBR) rule, which makes no reference as to what is a slide, legal or otherwise, to make up candy-a$$ rules (FED) just to make the game "safer" for little Johnny.
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See, you're thinking of the slight violation of the rule- you have to think of a more extreme violation. Like if a runner comes barreling into a base, makes a legal slide, but doesn't start his slide until he's a couple feet away from the base and totally chops the pivot man's legs out from underneith him. That's why they made the rule the way it is (i'd imagine).