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It's a forfeit because the team "refused to continue to play" (yes, in this sitch I realize they're refusing/declining to continue to play offense), but the fact remains that for all intents and purposes they're saying..."we've had enough, we don't want to play anymore." Last edited by KJUmp; Sat Apr 17, 2010 at 11:17pm. |
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ASA had a proposed change a couple years ago that would have allowed such a move legal. I believe there is a sanctioning body which does allow this presently.
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In one particular league, I permitted bat-skipping several times. It was a business league in which one company's team was loaded with serious players and usually won by big scores. On some evenings, after the second or third inning they would simply field and not bat.
What kind of satisfaction they got from constantly beating up on teams several levels below them, I can't imagine. I guess skipping a turn at bat is preferable to what I used to see in a nearby township when I lived in New Jersey. Again, one team was so strong that they invariably went beyond the mercy rule limit early, so before the required number of innings, they would switch their infield and outfield and otherwise do what they had to in order to let the other team back in the game. Just to keep the game going, they always kept the opposition within the mercy limit. As an indication of how things had deteriorated in that once-balanced and strong rec league, the team that crushed everybody contained guys I had played with and against 25 years earlier, some of them now ridiculously beefed up and barely recognizable. So a team of guys in their 50s spent the season crushing all comers, to what end, again I can't imagine.
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A number of years ago, we had a local coed league that had one team full of travel players playing against your typical local husband/wife boyfriend/girlfriend teams. A new run-ahead rule had to be instituted: 20 after 3, and 12 after 5 (WELL before ASA changed their run-ahead rule). We very frequently hit 20 after 3. That team was the "beginning of the end." The coed league no longer exists.
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"The coed league no longer exists."
I lived in central Jersey for more than 50 years. As enormously popular as softball was for decades, "that league no longer exists" applies to most of the leagues in that area today. Some leagues that had flourished for my entire life declined and folded over very short spans of time, such as from 12 competitive teams in 2005 to oblivion by 2007. But I remember when there were softball fields seemingly everywhere, when township and business leagues had two or even three divisions of play, and when you could put your team in a competitive tournament every weekend from April through October. Regarding Freaks and Mayhems: in 1978, my team finished third in the strongest SP county league in the state. Many of the players in that league also played on Trenton's professional team. We went 21-9 averaging under 6 runs a game. Our pitcher threw six shutouts that season. This is not to imply that SP is dying everywhere. Clearly, it's not. But it may be that New Jersey has become so expensive that SP's natural base of blue-collar ballplayers has simply shrunk too much.
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I've already stated my position pretty clearly...the team that refused to bat when it was their turn to bat loses the game by forfeit. |
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I challenge how you could declare a forfeit for failing to bat when there is no team on the field preparing to play defense. Here is a case where you must have an egg to make an egg sandwich (there has to be a pitch to bat, and there has to be a pitcher to make a pitch, as well as the rules requiring 9 defensive players, 8 of whom must be present in fair territory to have a legal pitch).
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In a 24-0 JV game there is "no game". JV for much of the country are an instructional tool used by coaches and schools to prepare players for the varsity level.I'd be the first one to agree in an varsity game there are no "rule
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if there is "no game", there needs to be no more need for an official. it's called practice if that's what both teams wish to continue, and the official has already done his job to get paid for both teams. time for a forfeit, there's nothing else left to play out. that's your common sense, go home, and have dinner.
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if you don't have much either, then what you have is a wish sandwich, and you wish you had some meat, baow baow baow....
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OK...I think we're all in agreement with what you said in your first paragraph if this sitch occurred in a HS (V/JV/Fr) game. We're not going to let the team do that, game is over at that point, higher authorities make the decision as to the official result of the game. They can call it whatever they want, we really don't care....not our worry. So let's say we're working a non HS, or a non tournament game like a house league or rec league game. Same sitch as the OP. Team A is on defense, they're getting crushed by Team B. Team A records the 3rd out to end the half inning, and HC of A tells his team to stay out in their defensive positions as the HC tells you "we want to forgo our time at bat, and let Team B bat again, and we'll continue to play defense." PU: "Coach you can't do that." HC/A: But we want to...and the HC of B is OK with us doing it." At this point what do we have? Many good arguments have been made as to why you cannot declare the game a forfeit. and I can see where the points made are certainly valid...but then what is this bizzaro sitch considered by rule? I'm ready to be swayed to the other side of the debate. |
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The question posed is what specific book rule applies here. I've stated that I felt that any rule code's forfeit rule would apply here. Many posters have been of the opinion that the rules covering forfeits cannot be applied here. The reasons they have stated have made me rethink my position to the point of my thinking to myself..."OK, I think you're right. It probably does meet the rule book criteria for a forfeit. So, if it's not a forfeit, what is it considered by rule?" |
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That said, there's nothing worse than the 14-0 in the 2nd inning game where the leading team gets on base and steps off on purpose to get out. To me, that shows up the other team WAY more than simply saying, "We don't need to bat this inning."
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