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Overheard a coach say...
...at a rules meeting the other night. The interpreter was explaining malicious contact. He said: "Remember, you can have one heck of a collision and have nothing if it was unavoidable." The coach (28 years of experience) said under his breath: "No way. The runner has to slide."
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Ah, never mind. |
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I don't think they will ever learn ... Thnaks DAvid |
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Why do they allow the runner to collide with the catcher at the mlb level? That is malicious contact.
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Since you asked so nicely, I believe this is the only one pertinent to MLB play. From the MLBUM, 6.1 Offensive Interference: Quote:
JM |
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Garth,
Ahhh. I don't believe I've ever seen that. And I've looked pretty carefully. Perhaps I missed it. JM |
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The myth that pro baseball is men playing a boy's game generates some thoughts such as this. In reality, kids playing baseball are playing a man's game. Baseball was and is designed for adults. That's why FED, LL and others have altered the rules. |
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rei,
I'm a pretty careful reader, and I'm usually pretty careful about what I post. The MLBUM interpretation I posted is, on occasion, indisputably incongruous with how the game is actually ruled during MLB games in regard to plays at the plate. (My personal favorite is the Erstad-Estrada collision; in my mind, materially different from the more famous Rose-Fosse collision. Curiously, the A-Rod play was very consistent with this interpretation.) As Garth points out, there is no OBR rule against it; so, maybe the MLBUM interp is more of a "guideline" than a "rule"1. JM (Edited to footnote reference.) 1. Ghostbusters, 1984 |
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