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Originally Posted by steveshane67
Im gonna tackle this in order of the posts made
Irishmafia
no need to yell
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Yeah, there is when what has been made obscenely apparent is still being raised as an issue.
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this isnt some magical world where once your foot lands outside the batters box, you lose all ability to hit the ball, obviously the ump reversed his decision to declare it a dead ball. i dont know how that wasnt 100% clear from the initial post
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Yeah, there is. It is called DEAD BALL! I'm screaming since you apparently do not know that NOTHING can happen once a dead ball situation occurs. That means no matter what the retired batter did with the bat to the ball, for the purpose of the game, absoluty nothing happened. Cannot rule on something that did not occur.
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no, the ump decided to award the runners what bases they would have obtained if the ump said nothing about the batter being out of the batters box. once again, i dont know how that wasnt 100% clear from the initial post
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How can you not know it wasn't 100% clear since you are the ONLY one who claims to have gotten the message even though your version is still completely supposition. When we are done here, can you tell us what the lyrics to American Pie meant?
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did you even read the post? the ump decided he was wrong in saying the batter was out of the box, so he corrected his mistake as best he thought he could.
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No, the OP makes no reference to the umpire thinking he was wrong. It only states that the umpires got together to make up some mystical ruling that has zero basis. I don't know what they were smoking, but when you are done with American Pie, can you cover Puff the Magic Dragon lyrics, too?
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no, 2 previous posters did not understand this point, as demonstrated earlier in my post
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No, EVERYONE got that point and understand the rule quite well as they have posted.
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that one Ill take the blame for. I thought inmates might have been slang for something else, i didnt know he literally meant it was a game in a prison.
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Than how can you provide supposition for what happened in the game?
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Side note, what prison has softball games with mutliple umpires, and with "spectators" who care enough about a play to post a question about it online??? What prison is this, if I ever go to jail, I want to go there.
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As noted by SteveM, there are umpires in prisons and we occasionally provide clinics for them. If they have that many umpires, maybe they can afford two a game. If not inmates, maybe they cannot get umpires to work games alone.
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this is where I bet the majority of the ppl on here would disagree with me. I dont care what level of play or sport, the umpires/referees job is to get the call correct. If they initially made a wrong call, be a man, admit you messed up, and fix it as best as possible.[quote]
Yes, get it correct within the framework of the rule book and interpretations provided by the staff of the sanctioning body.
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I understand the ppl on here are very knowledgable and have been doing this a long time. That was more a reflection of the certified ASA umpires that have umped games I play in, most of them dont even know basic rules. I could go through a litany of rules/calls they have botched severly. Im sure there are good umpires out there, just not many doing slow pitch softball.
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Tell me, how can you get your foot in your mouth while your head is up your ***?
This one is over.