I'll be glad to accept. Proposed it at my first Officials Advisory Committee meeting and everyone wondered why it wasn't already a FL rule. (Baseball wants to add it too.)

Maybe the tie breaker will be my next windmill to attack.

re: tiebreaker
 

When I first moved down here, I made the fatal mistake of asking Gainesville why FHSAA didn't have the tie breaker rule. The response was such that you'd think I proposed a two strike/three ball USSA rule of something. Another rule that might help would be to allow the last batter out to run for the catcher so she can gear up before the next half inning.But I'll take the tie breaker first.

[QUOTE=SWFLguy;831794 Another rule that might help would be to allow the last batter out to run for the catcher so she can gear up before the next half inning.But I'll take the tie breaker first.[/QUOTE]

Isn't that the purpose of the CR?

"speed up rule"
 

Having the last out be able to run for the catcher would eliminate the need for a courtesy runner. That would help very short handed teams. The idea is to allow the catcher to get back to the dugout and gear up for the next half inning. If my memory serves me, we used that rule when I did D-3 and JUCO college ball back in CNY.

That had to be a local rule - but it would make sense as a speedup thing.

Had my first use of the 15-after-3 Florida run rule this evening. 21-1 after 2.5 innings. And three of the home team's six outs were for leaving a base early. At least it only took 1:22.

Are you in a hurry during every game you work? The main and most important reason why the isn't a "last out runner" rule is in NFHS softball, it's about participation. The CR gives a student/athlete, who may not have played, an opportunity to do so.

A few years ago in Ohio we had the ITB. It didn't last long, and when it was removed everyone, coaches, umpires, players and parents, were happy. It works in weekend tournaments when time is short but why change the way the game is played just to end a few minutes quicker?

I love those evening 7:00p games at my neighborhood field that has no lights. Coaches ask me for a time limit, and I simply respond: "The sun will take care of that." Always gets a chuckle or two from coaches and parents. Useable daylight generally runs out at 8:30p. I think our local rule was 80 minutes no new inning but with a nature imposed hard limit of 90 minutes, I don't bother keeping track of time in that situation...

First game of HS season, we claim the record, a little over 3 hours.
Even without the 2 injury delays (one ambulance :( ); 20-18 would have been really long.
Good thing I love this. :cool: And no, I was not PU. :D

Just out of curiosity, when a player gets taken away by ambulance like that, do you have any kind of injury report you must fill out and submit?

No, but should be mentioned in game report.

Wow - for school games here, we have to fill out a liability report, and file it with our state group, and the secretary/treasurer of our local group.....we have to describe everything - what happened, players number, game conditions, the whole nine yards...