[jkumpire]

Folks,

Try not to be too hard on the BG here.

Everyone understands that FED writes the rules so any gerbil can learn the rules and umpire, and here is another case where a rewrite of the rule is needed to get rid of the confusion. If FED is going to make the rules simple to follow, the need to rewrite 6-1-1 to say something like: "The pitcher shall mount the pitchers plate and hesitate/take a sign before the time of the pitch in the windup position, or coming set in the stretch position".

If you read the rule, you can see where people could make a mistake and call an illegal pitch. Shoot, most of us probably had a JV game where we almost threw somebody out because they misread the rule. I was blacklisted by a school because I didn't call this as an illegal pitch.