obstruction or out

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by fiasco

Yikes! Don't getcher panties all in a wad for my sake, brother. I'm just trying to have a discussion here.

Who told?!

Originally Posted by fiasco

The fact is that the rule is not as clear cut as you claim it to be. Read it again.

8-5-4-c

"When a fielder fakes a tag without the ball"

It is not clear from the sentence structure if "without the ball" applies to the TAG or to the FIELDER. I'm inclined to think, because of where the modifier "without the ball" is placed, it is meant to apply to the tag, not the fielder.

Another example of poor editing in the ASA manual. If it was so clear cut as you claim it to be, the rule would read:

"When a fielder, without the ball, fakes a tag"

But that's not what it says, is it? The fact is that the rule is worded poorly.

I agree that ASA does not employ the best proofreaders, and there have been issues where clarity has been... questionable.

However, again, this is not what the rule was intending to prevent. To claim otherwise is, well, ludicrous.

[fiasco]

Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

Who told?!



I agree that ASA does not employ the best proofreaders, and there have been issues where clarity has been... questionable.

However, again, this is not what the rule was intending to prevent. To claim otherwise is, well, ludicrous.

Talk to me. How is it ludicrous? The spirit of the rule (to me, anyway), seems to be to prevent the exact situation that the OP described. Fielder can't make a proper tag, so they fake a tag to get the out.