What's the haps from Kentucky?

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

45 7 4 B Slow Pitch: Add: Will use a strike mat that is 24 inches long and 17 inches wide. The Mat will fit behind home plate joing the plate at 8 1/2 inches from the plate. The combined distance of the Mat and the plate is a rectangular 32 1/2 inches long by 17 inches wide. A legal pitch striking any portion of the plate or mat will be a strike. Senior Players want this rule.

So then why are we even there? I think that's terrible.

The last league I called in that used a mat also had a provision that roughly stated "if the pitch did not hit the mat, a strike may still be called if the umpire judges it to be a legal ASA strike."