Intelligence and the ASA rule book

[Dakota]

Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA
The rule book is NOT a "How to" book you can pick up at Home Depot and go out and work a softball game. I suggest your friend attend a few clinics and then reread Rule 4, in whole. Then POE 15 and then Rule 4 again. See if he gets it then.

The ASA rule book has its share of funny sentence structures, misplaced sub-rules, errors in grammar, and other assorted problems. And, I've been known to poke fun at them from time-to-time, and even once made a serious suggestion that the ASA rule book could benefit from some professional editing.

I can imagine a senior editor at Simon & Schuster going into red-faced rant mode if a reference book with so many errors made it out with Simon & Schuster's name on the title page.

None of which is any criticism of ASA as a softball organization. It is criticism of ASA as a book publisher.

None of which has anything whatsoever to do with the DP/FLEX rule, either. The rule is reasonably well-written. The issue with the rule is the numerous scenarios that came come up in a real game where the rule may need to be applied.

So, someone who

has read ASA's DEFO rule over and over, ... {and} still does not understand it.

has an issue with their own ability to deal with multi-variable problems rather than an issue with how the rule is written. I hope your friend is in some relatively simple job, such as teaching young minds the English language.