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Old Thu May 07, 2009, 11:53am
rwest rwest is offline
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You do that in FED your day is done!

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Originally Posted by mashie59 View Post
My very frank opinion on this is that if the first baseman .... in a lot of cases is obstructing the path of the runner without yet having the ball ... then I tell my player to speed up and barrel right through that player. In a game we had the other night .... the first baseman got the feathers knocked out of him by my player. I explicitly instructed him to run right through this first baseman if he was in his way without the ball. I talked with the umpire between innings and he agreed.
In FED if there is malicious contact, that player is done for the day.
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