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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
The question most people don't get is, how can anything be dropped if it wasn't held to begin?
Of course, you are going to have some idiotic baseball reference that has absolutely no bearing on softball
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what if the rule said intentionally misplayed ball instead of intentionally dropped????
If theres a soft pop up that an IFer recieved in the webbing of their glove, but intentionally never closed their glove around the ball to let it fall to the ground, 99.9999999% of ppl would say that the IFer did not catch the ball on purpose. whether that meets the standards for ASA's IDB is another story.
EDIT: for most ppls logic not catching the ball on purpose is tantamount to intentionally dropping
as far as the baseball reference, why wouldnt i reference the origin of the softball rule??? i think that is been proven that softball is based off of baseball. in this specific instance, i highly doubt softball (ASA) invented the IDB rule and that was copied and altered by baseball.
So the question at hand is why is the IDB RS worded the way it is??? the rule is based off of the same premise as the IFF rule. in baseball, the IDB rule is governed by the premise that in IFer cannot intentionally misplay the ball (albeit they can let it drop untouched), in ASA, the IFer has to physically make the catch for IDB sit to apply.