Fri Aug 09, 2002, 08:09pm
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Originally posted by David Emerling
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I'll confess to being a bit baseball-biased. But don't get me wrong - I *love* girls fastpitch! I have sons that play baseball and a daughter who plays fastpitch; although I enjoy watching all their games, I have to confess that I rather enjoy watching the girls play more.
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I started working baseball 36 years ago, closed Connie Mack Stadium and opened Veteran's Stadium, attended over 50 Phillies games a year from '71 to '74 (Phillies gave active military free tickets and I was stationed at the Naval Base at the end of Broad St.), and attended game 6 of the '80 World Series in Philly. It was the only time I ever heard the announcer state that "dogs and horses are in play." However, I got bored with what has become a boring game. Even though I use to play FP, I considered that game equally boring which is why I prefer to work the SP game.
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No, I can think of several things ASA doesn't do to the "extreme." For instance, they do not make their rulebook "extremely" available to the general public. I just couldn't resist that one! 
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Very good, but if you cannot afford the $9.95 for the book maybe you should become a manager so you get a book as part of your registration.
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The ASA view of BOO is not without logic, for certain. It's just that I think it's a bit heavy handed to allow the defense to have their cake and eat it, too. They get the benefit of getting an out because an invalid batter batted and yet, at the same time, they get the play validated by registering outs. And THEN ... as if that wasn't good enough ... they get the PROPER batter out ... with a "cherry on top!"
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Hey, the offense does nothing more than make a play on a valid batter. It isn't their fault the batter that SHOULD be hitting failed to do so. All the offense did was pay attention. In the World Cup tournament this year, I had four potential BOOs, but not one was brought to my attention until a few batter later.[/b]
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Softball is a derivative of baseball. I just find it strange when softball takes a rule out of the baseball rulebook and then twists it into something surprisingly bizarre that most people don't recognize it, or, are shocked to find out that that IS the rule.
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Sorry, but that is just a personal opinion. I believe it is the other way around and thought I presented a very sound case. Of course, many baseball purists are too vain to believe their game wasn't an original. Sorry, I couldn't resist :-)
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That's sort of how I see this BOO thing. With no outs, if the improper batter hit a line drive that doubled-up another runner and *then* the inning ended because the defense claimed she batted out of order, my guess shock waves would ripple throughout the crowd.
Sure, it'd be the correct call - technically. The offensive fans would feel screwed ... and the defensive fans would feel like the cat that just ate the canary. One would fell like it's too BAD to be true while the other would be thinking that it's too GOOD to be true. And yet - it's true. And that's esentially the definition of an "extreme rule."
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Yeah, we wouldn't want a technicality like a rule get in the way of ball game.
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