Why did ASA cut out Umpire rule book?

[bkbjones]

The only rule book that got cut down was the one that used to have the code in it. It went to teams, commissioners, etc. Now all the extra they get is the whole list of tournaments for this year, next year, and the next year. They have to go online for the code.

And no, I don't know why treehugging got fashionable in OKC...

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by bkbjones

...And no, I don't know why treehugging got fashionable in OKC...

Maybe it is because they wanted to protect their tree.

[JefferMC]

Originally Posted by dakota

maybe it is because they wanted to protect their tree.

roflol! :d

[Skahtboi]

Originally Posted by JefferMC

roflol! :d

Ummm....obviously you aren't from around these parts, or you wouldn't have found that all that funny. Have you ever seen what Texans and Oklahomans call trees? In the Carolinas they are often referred to as bushes.

[ASA/NYSSOBLUE]

Originally Posted by Skahtboi

Ummm....obviously you aren't from around these parts, or you wouldn't have found that all that funny. Have you ever seen what Texans and Oklahomans call trees? In the Carolinas they are often referred to as bushes.

My mom is from Kansas, and my older sister I spent SEVERAL summers out there as a kid, visiting grandma/grandpa, so my sis and I came up with this: In Kansas, wherever they find more than two trees in one place, they put a fence around it, and call it a park....

[vcblue]

what they took out was the mechanic diagrams. Now they just have it written. Go to cactus ump for the diagrams

[BretMan]

Oddly, the missing mechanics diagrams are refered to by the accompanying text in several places, which makes me think that the diagrams were omitted by mistake.

Why else would there be a "key" explaining that "in the following diagrams", "P" equals Plate Umpire, "B" equals Base Umpire, etc.?

Anyhow, if you didn't get the Umpire Edition, it does exist and you might want to find one. The missing diagrams aside, the entire "Umpire Manual" section was reorganized and rewritten for 2009, with all new illustrations added.

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by Skahtboi

Ummm....obviously you aren't from around these parts, or you wouldn't have found that all that funny. Have you ever seen what Texans and Oklahomans call trees? In the Carolinas they are often referred to as bushes.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, HEY! Watch it there, Bub.

[BretMan]

Originally Posted by Skahtboi

In the Carolinas they are often referred to as bushes.

Or, many times, as "booshes".

Originally Posted by bkbjones

And no, I don't know why treehugging got fashionable in OKC...

The ASA treehugging is their community service project to save the environment since the teams are metal hoarding.