FED Interp, please?

[Warren Willson]

Originally posted by Carl Childress
My "opinion," as I made clear, is that the people who make interpretations for FED will also not accept the PBUC ruling. Heck, I know plenty of OBR umpires who find it rather bizarre.

...as I am unashamedly one of those "OBR umpires" Carl mentions! I honestly believe that J/R and the PBUC have distorted the intentions of the rule makers in permitting a non-appeal 4th out. Under the rules, a 4th out can only happen on an appeal play, and then only for one of the base running infractions found in OBR 7.10! However, the PBUC and J/R have made this a specifically non-appeal 4th out ruling simply to prevent a run from legally scoring as the direct result of a defensive fielder's choice in making a non-force 3rd out. Phooey!!! If the defense wanted to prevent that run scoring they should have played on the batter-runner instead! Their choice - their consequences, IMHO.

Now I honestly don't want to debate this issue all over again in this thread, but I felt I was entitled to offer the alternative view given Bfair's post and position in trying to extend this PBUC ruling to cover FED.

Cheers,