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Originally Posted by wadeintothem
Count me among the "They"s; pretty clear to me.
You can never grab one sentence of the rule book and "Holy Grail" that sentence. You must take the entirety of the book, the definitions, case plays, rules supplements and understand the reasoning, intent, application, and enforcement of the rule.
That is our job as officials; we must go beyond a single sentence and understand "ASA Rules".
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For the "they" crowd - I'm guessing this group is made up of people who have been officiating for decades and you know what the intent of this particular rule is. As do I. Intended things have been re-written in the past. Ever written a query and when you got it back you thought "that's not what I wanted", but when you re-checked your parameters found out that that's what you asked for?
I don't think I'm Holy Grailing anything, just trying to point out that two different sentences, one after another, are not worded properly.
And Irish, you most definitely
did say, and insinuate this is what the rule states when you add your own interpretation of "only the colored" of the double-base. Those are your added words to support your argument. But we're in violent agreement about what the call should be. We're just not in agreement that the ASA rules cited are gospel.
Errors in the manual on page 217:
GOOD PELVIC
ALLIGNMENT (GPA): The alignment of the Plate Umpire’s
pelvic with the outside front corner of home plate.
The pink "
ALLIGNMENT" should be "ALIGNMENT" [one "L"].
The red "
pelvic" should be "pelvis".
Do I know what "they" mean? Yup! Are there mistakes in that passage? Yup! Do I want to holy grail them? He!! no!
Ted