ASA sneaky stealing

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by MarkPSkins

Sorry, I am not an umpire nor in possession of page 118. Which is why I asked this question. I know you guys don't get into the philosphy of the rules but really it seems silly that one can run through the base while the pitcher has the ball in the circle, but you cannot leave from the bag when the ball is in the circle.

But anyways, thanks for your smug and somewhat condesending reply. Because we all know how simple it is to understand the rule book even when you consider that they had to write an entirely separate book (case book) to explain it.

Bubba,

Before being as equally condescending as you accuse others, you might want to remember this is an umpire's venue on "officiating.com". Unless you identify yourself as the contrary, many are going to presume you are an umpire.

OTOH, the question should have set off the bells and whistles that you are not a softball umpire, but there are some strange posts from all sorts, including softball umpires, so you just don't know until told.

[SRW]

An update:

After bringing the potential copyright infringement issue up with our executive board Sunday night, they directed our webmaster to have the pdf and the links to it removed from our website posthaste. He removed them Monday night.