[greymule]

And once you have called one illegal pitch on that replant, you have nailed yourself to constant vigilance to call every one either side makes for the rest of the game. Since many illegal pitches are borderline affairs, why look for trouble?

I did six 18U tournament games two weekends ago, and I could have called dozens. I've had games where as BU I figured I could have called every pitch by both pitchers illegal. Why should I be the only one in the park who notices? I know very well that if I started calling them, I'd soon wish I hadn't.

I agree that you see plenty of illegal pitches on TV. So many pitchers avoid the obvious airborne hop but still drag the foot and replant, and that's the main problem. Yet there are many pitchers who push off and deliver properly, without any sort of replant. Rewrite the rule? Maybe. What would it say? You can replant if you don't hop in the air?