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I'm with you. I think this is the fertile ground to plant the seeds of proper culture. Don't take the extra base because they other team can't throw and catch at 8 because it's the right thing to do... not because there is a line on the ground the runner had to be past before the pitcher has the ball on the mound. Peer pressure can be a wonderful thing. Yes, I can be a perpetual optimist.

I didn't see any vocal and wouldn't expect it. The absence of a verbal "out' should be enough of a verbal clue. But a signal is needed when you have a ball hitting the glove and a runner touching the bag. Porter hears ball hit glove and sees runner touch after that. Runner heard the ball hit the glove and thinks he's gonna be out and actually looks at Porter as he overruns by him. Porter then looks for secure possession and sees ball in the air. He then gives a casual safe signal which may or may not have been seen by runner but everyone knew what happened. If you "make no call" you might be interpreted as seeing no touch by the runner.

That's the best reason of all!

I have small children. College baseball in my market would require too much travel and being away from them for too long. This could be reassessed in about 13 years... ~Dawg

Worked a doubleheader for this level yesterday and the walk-off run scored where the other coaches politely tried to claim this rule came into play. Wasn't really much of an argument, it was a runner on third with no outs where they agreed the run was likely scoring either way but really hammered home the "local rules are for local fools" or whatever is that saying I've seen here before

So young. Condolences to his family and friends.

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Nobody is going to let me crash an experimental aircraft . . .

This is where it would be important to understand the league rules and bi-laws, as opposed to the overarching rule set. And, at the same time, it would be up to the coach to understand that this is a specific league or tourney rule. There are settings (it's more common in slow pitch) where there is a line in the outfield, and outfielders may not pass it at anytime (and others where they may not cross it until the ball has been hit). I can definitely see this in an 8U machine pitch league where you would want to prevent a team from putting it's entire defense in the infield. EDITORIAL: at this level there should be no outfielders. And I've seen this work. You draw a line at the outfield grass boundary, or some closely equivalent distance. If 7 year old Susie or Achmad hits the ball past that line (by ground or air) they get a homerun. Advantages include, but are not limited to: smaller rosters and lineups ensure more at bats (the most important skill to learn at this level) smaller rosters give you ability to have more teams coaches who conduct practices can focus on infield skills - save outfield for later years players don't immediately learn to resent outfield as "boring", as the ball just doesn't go out there nearly as often at this age kids get to have fun and do a home run trot once in a while I believe baseball should be taught and administered in levels. Kids should not start at, but systematically graduate to, things like outfield play, infield fly, dropped third strike, stealing, bunting, etc. EDITORIAL OFF

Any ideas if the this is repairable?

Umperials, we lost a fellow umpire and member of U-E, and we of the Wake lost a fellow Vulture on Wednesday. @Mr Ump, AKA Andre, originally of Chicago. He was 68. If anyone who knew him need details, please message me.