You let a high popup in the Infield drop between the 1st baseman and the 2nd baseman and did not declare an Infield Fly???? I don't care if you had a monsoon blowing across the field . . . that's an "Infield Fly"! Why didn't you declare it AFTER it dropped? Nothing in the book of "fairness" prohibits you from doing that. Why limit yourself to "three seconds"; (your timetable). The correct call on that play is "Infield Fly".
And the rules of the game, or the umpire's judgement for that matter, speaks nothing of "fairness". We are to administer the rules of the game, regardless of what may or may not seem "fair". There are probably more examples of of "unfairness" (is that a word?) in the rules of baseball than there are of fairness. Think of another profession where a person can "fail" 2/3 of the time, and still be called a "superstar". Wouldn't you think a batter should be able to get on base at least 50% of the time, if the rules were "fair"?
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Mon Oct 28, 2002, 07:04am
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