FED Interp, please?

[Carl Childress]

Originally posted by Bfair
As stated, if you even cared to read it, I felt Carl had made a highly practical post to the initial question posed to start the thread. IMO, it is WW who typically manages to write 1000 words with 10 worth reading---with the most appreciated among the group of 10 being "Cheers". Just my opinion (and that of others), Steve

I think everyone would be very happy if you really knew as much baseball as you pretend. Picking on Warren, huh?

Amazing!

It's like one the high school JV teams you umpire challenging the New York Yankess to a three-game series.

You are great at quoting rules, but you just don't understand what you quote, Steve.

FED 8-2-1 (you say) "requires runner to advance to base."

That's just another in a horrendously long line of your flat out wrong statements. All 8-2-1 says is that runners shall advance around the bases in order.

I've long since discovered you need to be taught like my 16-year-old Bronco umpires. That's OK; I've become a patient man since I started reading your uh, well, whatever they are.

Follow along now: one-word answers only.

1. R2, B1 singles. R2 must vacate second. Yes/No
2. R1, B1 singles. R1 must vacate first. Yes/No
3. If a runner is forced, he must advance. Yes/No
4. Sequential runners (look it up in the J/R) must advance when the batter becomes a batter-runner. Yes/No
5. A batter-runner is never forced. Yes/No

Hey, did you go 5 for 5?

If so, stop trying to prove that a FED umpire must call out a batter-runner for a fouth out at first when the batter did not miss the base.

BTW: I note you didn't comment on whether you were going to teach this "maneuver" to the Ft. Worth chapter.




[Edited by Carl Childress on Mar 22nd, 2001 at 08:04 PM]