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Originally Posted by SRW
Wow. So I am not an AFA umpire. I don't know their rules, I don't umpire for AFA, never even been to their website until today.
And gosh, they CHOOSE to sell you a rulebook... and they CHOOSE to freely distribute their rulebook as a PDF for free. They, as the copyright owners, made that choice with their intellictual property.
But it would appear, Mr. Piano, that you are 100% wrong in your statement above.
It took me 3 minutes to look up their website and find at least 3 references to the hands and the bat. Perhaps you should look it up too.
Here, I'll even make it easy for you. Click here and go to page 90, bottom of the page. Or even page 96, o. Or page 99 note 3. |
I know. This has already been discussed.
I'm just poking fun at them, because in their previous rulebook (prior to being completely rewritten), they had this exact phrase:
"The hands are part of the bat." It was probably a misprint. At least, I
hope it was a misprint.
Without any doubt, it
did appear in their rulebook.
But, unwittingly, you make my case!
The beauty of it is that you
were able to look it up! And, by your own testament,
promptly! All this despite your not owning an AFA rulebook. And it's unlikely you would have purchased one to find the answer to that one point of fleeting curiosity.
I'm saying that it's a "good thing" that you were able to do that.
I don't think rules knowledge should the sole province of coaches and umpires and that somebody should be extorted into buying an entire book to answer a simple point like "Are the hands considered part of the bat?"
If your car needed new windshield wipers, would you think it proper to be forced to buy the
whole car just to get new wipers? If that were the case, you'd probably resign yourself to the fact that it's just going to suck every time it rains and you have to drive. You'll do without.
That's the position casual fans and interested parties are in with regards to ASA rules. Again, I'm excluding registered umpires and coaches. And yet, even for them, it would still be nice to have it available online without additional fees, over and above the cost of the hardcopy rulebook.
Thank you!
David Emerling
Memphis, TN