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Originally Posted by Rich Ives
The term comes from abusing the rules, not for not knowing them.
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Yep. abusing, or attempting to cheat.
See TB manager in the past couple of days.
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Originally Posted by mbyron
Huh. I thought it came from coaches' superfluous attempts to correct umpires.  |
Nope. Unless by "superfluous" you mean "arguing even though you know the umpire got it right."