Homerun/Ejection/Forfeit

[Tim C]

Might think the POE is easy but wait:

"The Oregon Federation Rules Honcho" taught at two of the three rules clinics this season that teams were to stay in the dugout.

This of course was corrected when an umpire who posts on a private umpire internet group brought the issue up to his international umpire group. The USA FED umpires on that group strongly mentioned that the Oregon guy was just wrong.

I will say this:

For those of you that work soccer there was a previous POE in that rule book. It was written to eliminate activities after a goal was scored (i.e. shirts being taken off and organized celebrations). Soccer officials were given the same type order to control demonstrations. When FED decided officials did not do enough FED wrote a rule.

As umpires we are maybe two years max away from having a rule that restricts the actions of players after a home run.