OBR rewrite?

[rex]

Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
The OBR rewrite will be a disaster for two reasons.

(1) The umpires will have to relearn where everything is, unless the writers are very careful to take all the sources of authoritative opinion and structure the book the same way as before.

(2) There will be new loopholes created unintentionally. Then, will we use the OLD sources and rulebook as AO?

I don't know why they just don't leave it as it is and incorporate the NAPBL manual and Evans and J/R and all that other stuff as case notes to the existing book.

Rich

Rich,

I don't think they will rewrite the OBR (Players union has too much to say about it) IMHO it will be a reorganization of the rules and a clean up of mistakes. As you know there are a bunch of them. One such rule would be to put 4.09 where it belongs with runner responsibility. As far as umpires having to relearn, again IMHO the rules would be much easier to follow if they weren't spread out as random thoughts.

Yikes what means Yikes?

rex