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Originally Posted by Tru_in_Blu
I didn't write this league's bylaw, but I'd hardly refer to it as "ignorant".
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If you take away the bad connotation of that word, I'd say it is the very definition of ignorant. Almost 100% of the time, when a league writes a rule, the writers are ignorant of rules (you won't find umpires involved in this), so they write a rule that sounds good, yet is either undefined in many ways, incompletely explained, or contradictory to itself. Yours, as described, is a worthless addendum. Saying Outfielders must play on the grass is ignorant, as if one should wander in too close, they aren't outfielders anymore. I understand their intent - but perhaps a better rule would be, "A team may have no more than 6 infielders at the time of the pitch, including pitcher and catcher". Infielder is already defined by ASA, so you would have less issues with this than what they've written.