Mbyron and Rich,
We are in agreement that the change made by the rules committee was just plain bad. I did not think it was broken in the first place. And as Rich said it is broken now. (I am not as confident as he is that next year will be any better).
I still stand by by argument the changes in baseball/softball to obstruction rule are knee jerk reactions to somebody's self esteem being hurt.
To counter that claim, they will argue their concern is player safety in trying to prevent all train wrecks or just collisions. Well, when two 6'4, 240 lb players are trying to both occupy a piece of real estate 15 inches square contact is bound to occur. So, FED, if you are so concerned about collisions make the bases 4 feet square.
