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Old Wed Oct 27, 2010, 07:06pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by youngump View Post
I understand what they're going for and why they're doing it. What I'm not doing very well communicating is how they missed it. If someone were to open the book and read that rule having no idea what a fair ball was and they saw that it was a fair ball if it touched first (white part only). They would be wrong but well within the realm of reasonable reading to say that if it did not touch the white part only that it was foul ball (and avoiding that is the whole point of the change)

A simple change to the change could make this completely unambiguous. Touches the white portion of first base, second base, or third base. It's less words and easier to parse.
WTF are you talking about?

Guess we are going to have to walk through this a step at a time.

Are you aware that this is NOT a change to the existing rule?
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