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Originally Posted by yawetag
Last I checked, ignorance of the rules by the participants involved doesn't change the way we officiate a sport.
Using your logic, we should go ahead and consider the hands part of the bat.
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Oh, that's not a leap in logic in itself. Spare me.
If it were the only rule that ever got bent on a regular basis, this argument might have a chance (if you left out the asinine part about the hands and bat). Umpires routinely "just umpire" and the letter of the rule is often neglected, even by such sticklers for the rules as yourself. I have never heard of such a ridiculous argument, and I will say again that if you would honor an appeal when the runner touched an exposed part of the installed plate, then you would be wrong.
Do you call a major league strike zone in your games? There you go.
Also, look at rule 1.05 closely. It does not one time mention either "black" or the edges not being part of the plate. In fact it says that the "top edges of home base shall be beveled," which clearly identifies the edges as being part of the plate, and if they happen to be above the ground, they are going to be used as "plate."