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No, that's the point. Switzerland is what the USA was soccerwise, 10 years ago, hehe...
It's pretty underground, we have no professional umps. The responsible persons now suddenly started to come up with some rules that obviously must be true, since they are in the rulebook, but that I haven't seen being calles anywhere.
We don't get Baseball on TV, but alot of us addicts have subscribed to entire pontel-seasons. So we have seen tons of games. Of course we've been to the US many times and seen games life too.
So for our small country, I (and almost every player in the league) find it pretty dumb that a couple of responsible suddenly emerge with such rules and start to strictly enforce them. See, the thing is, they call things like these, or check for inches between pitchers heels and the rubber... but miss basic plays like calling fair/foulballs, call runners out that are being tagged on the chest while their feet have touched 2nd base somewhere during the renaissance and so on.
We find it just stupid to dig out yellowed out rules that obviously nobody is paying attention to on the rest of the globe, then trying to prove "know how" by enforcing them and slowing down the game, aggravating players and so on.
So as I can see, there is literally nobody who would make that call I guess... ("BALL")
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