Why did ASA cut out Umpire rule book?

LIIRISHMAN · #1 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 10:47am

We all know the only ones that read the rulebook (or know it for that matter

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are the Umpires. What was the reason for stopping the Umpires edition? Was it to save money?I really feel they need to rethink this and bring the Umpire's edition back in 2010. Regardless I re-read the rule book several times during the year and miss the material that the umpires edition gave me. What is your opinion?

MGKBLUE · #2 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 10:52am

I received an Umpire Manual/Umpire Edition of the 2009 ASA rule book when I registered with my local state association.

3afan · #3 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 10:57am

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Originally Posted by MGKBLUE

I received an Umpire Manual/Umpire Edition of the 2009 ASA rule book when I registered with my local state association.

me too

#4 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 11:14am

I got the umpires' version...don't see why you didn't

Stu Clary · #5 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 11:18am

Yup. Me too.

Skahtboi · #6 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 01:03pm

Mine says 2009 Umpire Manual right there on it.

wadeintothem · #7 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 01:23pm

You got flim flammed.

Dakota · #8 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 01:48pm

Maybe they're trying to tell you something!

bkbjones · #9 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 01:57pm

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 · #10 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 02:09pm

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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 · #11 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 02:15pm

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Originally Posted by dakota

maybe it is because they wanted to protect their tree.

roflol! :d

Skahtboi · #12 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 02:18pm

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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.

#13 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 02:49pm

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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.

ASA/NYSSOBLUE · #14 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 03:51pm

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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 · #15 (**permalink**) Fri May 01, 2009, 06:13pm

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

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