It's Friday

[David B]

Originally posted by His High Holiness
All;

I guess you thought that I was about to start stirring s$$$. You are wrong. I am going to ask a mundane question and come back on Monday to read the results.

With the flap over FED rules in another thread, I thought of a FED rule/procedure that is universally ignored in my area. Each year for the past two or three years, the FED interpreter emphasizes the FED rule that recommends/requires dugout extensions to be made towards the outfield. Yet, without exception, when I go to a FED game, extensions have already been marked off towards home plate. No matter how big the dugouts are, the coach always wants another 10-15 feet of dugout extension which he marks off with a chalk line. It is already in place by the time I get to the plate conference.

Does anyone else have this poblem? If so, do you ignore it like we do in Virgina? This is a possible safety issue because it places coaches and players about 10 feet closer to the batter. Once I considered being an a$$hole and requiring them to move the dugout extensions to their preferred location but I did not pursue it.

Garth, what does Tim Stevens say?

Peter

This is one of the changes that our state actually discussed in our mandatory meeting with the coaches.

And our association makes them do it by the book.

A lot of the coaches complained at first, but they got over it once the season started.

I did notice that other teams coming in though did not know about the changes as far as coaches etc.,

So I'm sure in our state, each association is pretty much free to do it how they want.

Thanks
David