Intent & Spirit of a Rule

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BTW, the only group that was against the 1-1 count was the Senior committee which includes representing the Masters program. They agreed that they would support the 1-1 proposal if their game was exempted. The proposal was amended within 10 minutes of that request.

Since then, the Masters has requested the 1-1 count be applied to their game, so as Steve noted, it seems to be what the players want.

Also, the suggestion of courtesy fouls was raised and it was stated that if there was a demand from the players for that, it could be proposed the following year. When the following year came around, the only negative report that I heard came from the Women's Western D(?)s.

Some of those who spoke against the 1-1 the previous year, turned around because of their experience at nationals and stood up for the straight 1-1 count to stay as is with no courtesy fouls.

But that isn't the only rule out there. Some use "intent" when not calling an IP because they don't want to advance runners (FP) or frighten batters (SP), but that really shouldn't be there decision. Then you have the "intent & spirit" folks when they feel "trickery" was used by one team even if the issue was clearly within the scope of the rules. Love those Ol' Smitty umpires.