When do you call "Time!"

[wadeintothem]

Originally Posted by Dakota

Yet another dinger, wade. You're just full of 'em aren't you? And, you keep putting up your straw man argument about waiting on the pitcher to pick off runners, etc.

Who said a diddle damn about waiting! The point is about not killing the ball. You can keep the game moving at a quick pace without killing the ball! But, that does take experience, not just the quick kill.

The rule you keep applying to kill the ball says (Slow Pitch Only) in my ASA rule book.

The rule I use to kill the ball says an umpire can call time..

what rule are you referring too?

Its not a straw man to talk about the picking off the runners on base - thats a specific argument on the part of posters on your side of the argument that killing the ball (when its effectively dead anyway once in the circle with F1 and runners are on bag, barring knuckleheadness not worthy of discussion) prevents a pitcher from attempting to pick off the runner.

Whats next, if the runner lifts her foot slightly while shes waiting on you to stop staring at her and the pitcher to see if they will make a play on eachother, call the runner out for leaving the bag?

Play is dead.. people are waiting.. thats all thats happening.

I guess I'll let you have the last word on this, neither of us will change our styles.

Course IMO, in timed games, its the girls you are robbing when you can only get in 4 innings in a buck 20 and wonder why FP is so slow. Its their game though, let em lag.