Straddling rubber to take signs

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally posted by Tim C
Steve:

While you can have whatever opinion you want (and state) about Federation Rules makers I would suggest you learn first about how high school rules are written.

Over the past 15 years 92% of all new rulings were requested by coaches. 3% of the new rules were requested by high school administrators. The remaining 5% of the rules were brought to committee by a varying number of peoples.

It appears to me that Garth's original point was related to an opinion about one of the four "self admitted" reasons FED has for making rules.

"#4 -- Rules and mechanics to help untrained umpires by eliminating judgment and complicated rotations of mechanics."

I used to call this section "dumb umpire rules."

Tee

Oh.

Okay, 95% were requested by coaches and administrators, so they automatically figured, "hey, these coaches are really on the ball, let's use their suggestions. After all, who would know more about the rules than a coach? Wait, I know, an administrator!"

Of the remaining 5%, I wonder how many were those "too dumb to understand the rules" umpires? Yeah, what the hell, let's just eliminate judgment, since what would these dumbasses know about that. These are the same people who go out of their way to make the rules complicated and confusing in nature, so much so that they cause arguments.

It seems that we should be the ones to ask about the rules, and not a whole lot of anybody else.

And these truly are JMO. I enforce the rules, but I don't have to like them.