Nfhs Fpsr @ Hp

[SanDiegoSteve]

This is what happens when you change a perfectly good (OBR) rule, which makes no reference as to what is a slide, legal or otherwise, to make up candy-a$$ rules (FED) just to make the game "safer" for little Johnny.

I know, if I don't like FED rules, blah, blah, blah........

[SAump]

First base isn't the same as the other bases, neither is HOME.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by SAump

First base isn't the same as the other bases, neither is HOME.

Unfortunately, the FED definitions of legal and illegal slide make no reference to which bases, so they apply equally to all bases. Perhaps we could have the FED hire you to change the rule, Oui?

[SAump]

Worse, runners return to the bases occupied at the TOP, as well.

Rats would coach the catcher to wait behind the plate.

[LDUB]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

This is what happens when you change a perfectly good (OBR) rule, which makes no reference as to what is a slide, legal or otherwise, to make up candy-a$$ rules (FED) just to make the game "safer" for little Johnny.

I know, if I don't like FED rules, blah, blah, blah........

I am wondering why you have made several posts about how stupid the NFHS is for having a FPSR while the NCAA has the exact same rule and you have made no mention about how the NCAA is ruining baseball. It seems as if you really don't hate the FPSR. You just like going on about how much you hate the NF, for if you really did not like the FPSR you would have made some sort of comment about the NCAA.

[SanDiegoSteve]

I am sure that if I had pursued a life of NCAA baseball that I would be railing against that absolutely insane rule book of theirs also, but I spent 19 seasons working high school ball, so that is where I focus my tirades. For the record, the FPSR bites at any level, IMWOBWHO.

[bossman72]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

This is what happens when you change a perfectly good (OBR) rule, which makes no reference as to what is a slide, legal or otherwise, to make up candy-a$$ rules (FED) just to make the game "safer" for little Johnny.

See, you're thinking of the slight violation of the rule- you have to think of a more extreme violation. Like if a runner comes barreling into a base, makes a legal slide, but doesn't start his slide until he's a couple feet away from the base and totally chops the pivot man's legs out from underneith him. That's why they made the rule the way it is (i'd imagine).

[SanDiegoSteve]

Then that pivot man should have made a better play. I'm sorry, I played hard-nosed, blood and guts baseball growing up. We didn't have slide rules, or sliding pads, or elbow pads, or batting gloves or nothing! We played good old country hardball. I know we live in lawsuit-happy times, but sometimes in trying to do the right thing, rule makers go overboard the other way, and we end up with a sport that only slightly resembles baseball.