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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn
I can live with coaches calling the pitching plate the rubber - after all, if you order one on line for your field, it's called a rubber on many sites.
What kills me are those that still say, "on the mound" in softball. I see no mound!
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The ignorance of on-line sales really shouldn't be a viable excuse. That is not really different than deciding interference and obstruction are interchangeable, or a foul tip back to the screen is acceptable language by umpires because enough other people don't know the difference.
As the people expected to know the proper terms, we are also the people expected to use them. Without exception, so that the proper terms ultimately rub off as common usage.