How come you keep saying you are 'done with this' yet you keep responding with the same argument?
You are of course entitled to your POV but shouting it over and over doesn't change anything on either side.
Your overbearing legalism on this rather small area of game management is puzzling to me, to say the least. I work with umpires who feel as you do, but they don't threaten excommunication because of it.
Sure, there are some risks inherent in the strategy. There's risk in every game-management decision we make. That's for each umpire to assess and act accordingly, which is why 'not everyone can umpire.'
