Aaarrgh!!!

[rainmaker]

Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
Starting with the 1963-64 season, that provision was deleted and the Rules Committee stated in an editorial comment that the provision was deleted because it (Rules Committee) wanted to prohibit game officials from keeping a dead ball from becoming live or to stop the game so taht a player could tie his shoe laces.

I don't like this. How are we, 40 years later, supposed to know what they want if they aren't specific? If they really wanted to PROHIBIT it, why not write it into the book, and make it official? How are we supposed to be consistent and maintain a high standard of excellence when we are mostly guessing what the heck we're supposed to do?