Coachism's Revisited ... And Umps too

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Originally posted by Blu_IN

2. I'm sure this will get some people on these boards hot. As far as I am concerned, if you leave that bat over the plate, you are getting a strike called on you period. Tuff one though with the bloody ball rolling in.

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If you are doing ASA or NSA games and always call this a strike, you are causing more problems for other blues than "the hands are part of the bat" morons. This is the #1 source of rule questions I've had during games, and I know that it is because too many umps call it wrong.