Lightning discussion

[Scooby]

I don't understand why umpires try to put their own interpretation on the lighting rule. If you see it stop the game. While it is interesting to learn about how lightening works, it is not really germane the enforcement of the the rule. Enforce it as written and if you want your interpretation of the rule to be the norm, try to change it through the appropriate process.

If an umpire chooses to substitute his own opinion for the rule that umpire is risking everything that he owns. To me it is not worth trying to play a game, even if it is only a 1 in a 1,000,000 chance that a player gets hit by lightening. And the same players that were saying that they wanted to play will be on the witness stand saying that they saw the lightening and you saw it too and you continued to play the game, in with complete disregard to the rules.