Originally Posted by jmkupka (Post 896447)

Speaking ASA (& PONY if anybody's out there), Catcher may set up anywhere as long as they are in the catcher's box, but are they allowed to be standing straight up, ala MLB?

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn (Post 896445)

More specifically, it's like the rule about where the feet must be before the pitch (inside or touching the lines, but nothing touching outside), although not where it must be when the ball is hit (touching the lines, MAY be touching outside).

Originally Posted by jmkupka (Post 896447)

Speaking ASA (& PONY if anybody's out there), Catcher may set up anywhere as long as they are in the catcher's box, but are they allowed to be standing straight up, ala MLB?

Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve (Post 896483)

Help me to understand why this would be a question, please. What could possibly lead anyone to think the catcher cannot?

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn (Post 896485)

Because of ASA rule 14.3.B.3 - Catchers rising to prepare for a pitch out must remain bent at a 30 degree angle until the ball is thrown. This is known as the Australopithicus rule.

You mean you don't bring your protractor to the field?

Originally Posted by jmkupka (Post 896447)

Speaking ASA (& PONY if anybody's out there), Catcher may set up anywhere as long as they are in the catcher's box, but are they allowed to be standing straight up, ala MLB?

Originally Posted by jmkupka (Post 896572)

No.
Just had a partner (PONY tournament) insist that she be in the "catching position", in a crouch, prior to the pitch.
Jes' makin' sure I wasn't misreading a simple rule;)

Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve (Post 896574)

And it is folk lore like that which results in people thinking PONY is by-and-large inferior ball using inferior umpires.

Just me, but I would 1) tell that partner he is a f*cking indiot, and 2) look in every available rule book to assure myself I didn't miss something, before I asked something like that on a national board, making me look like him.

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA (Post 896591)

Oooohhhh, now you did it. The F*cking Indiot tribe will be riding on Dacula, GA at sunrise! :) I believe they are the Western Hemisphere cousins of the Maasai Werethefugarewe, the long-lost tribe of great leapers, some with a vertical of 5' found roaming the great savannas of Africa by the great mystic, Carnac the Magnificent while on safari

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn (Post 896596)

I saw him while visiting gypsy cousins in Mesopotamia. Not sure if it was earlier or later in his career, but we called him Carnac the Meh...

Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve (Post 896598)

Meh? Now you sound like my other brother Darrell, AZBigDawg.

Originally Posted by jmkupka (Post 896572)

No.
Just had a partner (PONY tournament) insist that she be in the "catching position", in a crouch, prior to the pitch.
Jes' makin' sure I wasn't misreading a simple rule;)

Originally Posted by EsqUmp (Post 896765)

Please make sure I don't see this person in PA or VA a month from now.