This is your All-Star Coach?

[MD Longhorn]

How in the world is it possible for a coach (2 actually - HC and AssC) to make it through an entire season of baseball, be selected to coach a town's All-Star team, yet not know that if your batter is put out at first base on a routine play, your runner from 3rd can not score, even if he beat the play at 1st?

And how in the world can you argue about it THREE times?

Top of 1, the above occurred, HC argued with me as I tried not to laugh at the absurdity of not knowing this rule at this point of the season. After bottom 1, AssC briefly argues with me as he's heading toward the 3BC box. After top 2, HC comes in again, gets the firm, "Coach we've already talked about this once too many - the rule is the rule let's move on." He then tells the scorekeeper, loud enough for everyone to hear, to put the run on the board and that the umpire is wrong. So now AssC is HC. Scorekeeper puts the run on the board! And now I have a new scorekeeper.

Absurd. Completely absurd. And people wonder where the term RAT comes from.