Braves @ Astros Game3

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally posted by LDUB

I told you, it lists the reasons in the front of the book.

You would prefer the never changing OBR?

Yeah, those 4 rule changes are really hard to remember.

Luke, maybe you didn't understand what I said. I said that I don't care for Federation Rules, and the majority of umpires that I know feel the same way. Here, we call High School Baseball "High School", but we call all other levels of ball "baseball". That should give you an idea of our disdain of NF rules. We follow the rules, enforce the rules, but we sure don't care for them at all.

Yes I prefer the OBR, even though rules occasionally are changed, case in point, the ever changing strike zone definition. At least the Fed finally is allowing pitchers to turn their shoulders before coming set. That was one asinine rule, for example.

It isn't that the annual rule changes are hard to remember, it's just that they are usually petty, insignificant changes which are totally unnecessary.

By the way, here's another rule we don't much care for, in fact, it is a huge joke among veteran umps here:
The option of restricting the coach to the dugout instead of ejecting him. Nobody in our association (which, by the way, is one of the oldest, and most respected nationwide) would even consider restricting the coach. Please tell me you have never restricted a coach to the bench!

Steve