Civility

[SAump]

Originally Posted by BigUmp56

This is exactly the kind of nonsense I was talking about, SA. You have shown on numerous occasions that you know very little about this game except how to formulate unsubstantiated opinions that are near worthless. You are a rookie at best and a long time Smitty at worst, yet you continue to engage the more knowledgeable posters on this board in matters of which you have no understanding.

Take the carelessly thrown bat issue for example. How many other officials told you that you were off base in your line of thinking? Way too many for you to keep arguing, yet on and on you went. At some point, a reasonable man would have thought to himself that he may need to re-think his position. However, as you're not a reasonable man, you no doubt cannot grasp this concept. As I have it right now, you're batting a big o-fer' on this forum.

Tim.

A carelessly thrown bat in OBR merits warning and an ejection.
My indifference results from the manner UMPIRES have granted OC responsibility to take care of the issue.
Mr Ortiz of Red Sox Fame was suspended 5 games for a carelessly thrown bat.
He could not be called OUT again because he had already been ruled OUT.
The league took PRO-ACTIVE punishment aside from the rules set in place.
I am aware of no such opportunity at lower levels of play.
I suppose a proper analogy would be:
1) The fox in charge of the henhouse.
2) The robber incharge of the LOCK BOX.
3) ...
I do NOT like it and it is an OPINION.
It is a well informed POLITICAL opinion you choose to ignore.
It is a well informed opinion that points out a weakness in the current rules.
Instead, you and your lost pups pretend the rule is greater than the game.
I have been attacked for forming an opinion defending the integrity of the game.
As I speak online today (2006), some local baseball leagues will have modified their own rules.
In softball and T-ball, many local leagues have already modified these rules.
You ignore the advice of professionl ballplayers and attack their character.
You ignore the reality only to besmirch my character.
You do all this on a thread named CIVILITY.
The yokes on YOU to correct it.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by SAump

A carelessly thrown bat in OBR merits warning and an ejection.

Yes, exactly. After a warning, the next offense by any team member results in an ejection.

My indifference results from the manner UMPIRES have granted OC responsibility to take care of the issue.

What umpires? Not real ones! Real umpires don't let the coaches run anything but their mouths, and those not for long. A good umpire will warn the player, his coach, and his team, that the next offender will be ejected. Period. End of discussion!

I do NOT like it and it is an OPINION.
It is a well informed POLITICAL opinion you choose to ignore.
It is a well informed opinion that points out a weakness in the current rules.
Instead, you and your lost pups pretend the rule is greater than the game.
I have been attacked for forming an opinion defending the integrity of the game.

You did not present this as an opinion, you presented it as a proper interpretation of the current rules, which it was not. Us "pups" know that the rule is the game, and without the rules, there would be no game. You have not been attacked for forming an opinion, you have been corrected for passing off your opinion as fact.