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Originally Posted by PeteBooth
Rich I am not speaking for Garth but I think (that could be dangerous) he means the following:
In the FED rule book, there are the Mercy / Speed-up Rules
Here in NY we did not adopt the Mercy Rule or Speed-up Rules. I do not know why NY didn't adopt these rules but that's a different discussion altogether. We do have a 15 run rule in modified.
If you do adopt the Mercy Rule / Speed-up Rules, then one has to apply them the way they are outlined in both the rule /case books. In other words a particular state can not modify the rule if they adopt it.
A state does have the option of accepting certian rules or not but once a state adopts it, they cannot on their own change it.
Garth if that's not what you meant then please clarify with examples
thanks
Pete Booth
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Pete, what I meant was this: Fed, in the first paragraph on page one in all sports rulebooks allows that member states may modify the rules. For example in Washington in basketball, we have added a shot clock for women's games. In North Carolina, apparently, they have gone back to the old missed base appeal rule. That is allowed by FED. As I said, there is a price for that. Washington cannot have a representative serve on the rules committee as long as we modify the rules.
What FED had no provision for is to accept the Rules, but change the interpretation as in last year's debat over the "Gorillar Arm" move. While there was disagreement over the interp, FED had no provision for allowing any interpretation other than theirs. As another example, a state cannot decide to leave the FPSR in, but intepret it differently.
I'm sure Rich understood what I meant. He was just a bit overreaching in his initital post.