[Dakota]

Quoting myself when this rule change was being discussed prior to be adopted...

...this rule change is senseless, brainless, idiotic, ill-advised, irrational, ridiculous, mindless, ludicrous, absurd, half-witted, nonsensical, daft, illogical, unintelligent, irresponsible, scatterbrained, addled, misguided, injudicious, imbecilic, addleheaded, insane, mad, incoherent, outrageous, preposterous, unreasonable, asinine, unwise, careless, cuckoo, boneheaded, goofy, dumb, half-baked, harebrained, screwy, loony, batty, and nutty.

I'd go on but both my thesaurus and I have run out of words.

ASA insiders seem to forget that 99.99% of the ASA umpires and coaches are NOT insiders and will not be attending a rules clinic taught by a member of the NUS. This means that the vast majority of ASA umpires will be hearing about this rule change and how to officially interpret it 3rd or 4th hand from the "official" interpretation about the runner "committing and act" or whatever. And, the vast majority of coaches will hear about it from their buddy who coaches another team or from their league and the "interpretation" will either be completely missing or horribly mangled.

Besides, I'll bet you dollars to donuts even the NUS will not teach this rule change the same way.

Somebody must have thought the game was getting too boring and wanted to add some coach-to-umpire excitement.