The rules are not made for the convenience of the game official, but for the players and teams.

Also, they are two games with different size fields, different equipment, different philosophies and different rules to accommodate them.

If you cannot get pass the differences, you may want to stick with baseball.

Then you must also want to have the same rules IN softball itself! No Pony, NFHS, NCAA(AAAAAA), Fed, ASA, etc., enz. (NL), unsw.(Ger)... Just softball-rules by ISF!

IMHO this is putting ones head into the sands. It not there, if I can't see it...
As it was said before:"BB and SB are NOT the same!" If I want to play poker, I don't care about rules for Canasta. Even if you play it with the same playing-carts.

"Then you must also want to have the same rules IN softball itself! No Pony, NFHS, NCAA(AAAAAA), Fed, ASA, etc., enz. (NL), unsw.(Ger)... Just softball-rules by ISF!"

Actually, you have a point there.

A very good one, in fact. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I like it.

After all, BB has their "Bible", which is the MLB rules. But then again, they also have NCAA, and other bodies.

I know to little about BB to agree with you, but I think to know that here in the Netherlands we use CEB or IBAF-rules. And how they come to their rules is a big, big blank to me... They could follow MBL, I don't know.
Still I hate the idea that the MBL-org. is the God in BB!!!