Feinting to First

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Coach Dykhoff

I bet you are a real joy to work with on the diamond.

What's with the personal attack?

I have seen this call, called both way so that crap about it being called the right way is dumb. Just because someone has been to a clinic doesn't mean they know the rule properly, just the interpretation of the one holding the clinic. I have been to coaching clinics that still have a batter lifting their back elbow.

The clinics (generally) are held by people who are getting their direction from TPTB. When something is a bit muddy in the rulebook (this sitch is CERTAINLY not the only place), it gets talked about. It gets pushed up the ladder for "official" rulings. SOMETIMES (although not nearly fast enough for any of our taste) it even gets fixed or clarified in the rulebook. But you need to realize that if an umpire is actually trained, and not just some local yahoo that umpires because he can't play anymore, they are going over situations just like this, getting official interps. I know this particular one has been mentioned more than once in clinics I've attended. That interp, which most of us here have heard, far outweighs a coach reading the book and seeing an apparent discrepancy, and then guessing.

Apperantly you have something against me or coaches all around, because you have tried to bash me in two threads. That is fine but anything you have to say to me from now on will fall on deaf ears.

Where did I bash you? I do "bash" things people say, especially when they are as uninformed as what you said in this thread. But I don't believe I've personally attacked you, other than my gradually increasing suspicion that you are a pseudonym for someone that trolled the area and was booted the very day you showed up.

[Coach Dykhoff]

But I don't believe I've personally attacked you, other than my gradually increasing suspicion that you are a pseudonym for someone that trolled the area and was booted the very day you showed up.

I get what you are saying. Ask a administrator/ moderator to do a IP check and that will put the issue to rest.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Coach Dykhoff

I get what you are saying. Ask a administrator/ moderator to do a IP check and that will put the issue to rest.

that's been done and while it can "prove" one side of the issue, it can't "prove" the other.

[Coach Dykhoff]

Huh, if you prove one side doesn't it disprove the other? I never understood math.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Coach Dykhoff

Huh, if you prove one side doesn't it disprove the other? I never understood math.

It's very hard to prove a negative.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Coach Dykhoff

Huh, if you prove one side doesn't it disprove the other? I never understood math.

It's not math, it's a logic problem.

It's a non sequitur to go from "If A then B" to "If not A, then not B."