It's Friday

[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