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Can you imagine if one of the Red Sox would have had the wherewithal to actually appeal this... Great article.

Good example...I can actually see this happening a lot in travel ball. Kids have so much going through head, so many parents yelling that they just freeze.

Brushing up on my rules before games start and have this question rattling around in my head. Plays at the plate with contact are bound by 2 scenarios: 1) Train wreck - catcher and runner both doing their jobs and contact just happens. From my understanding this is a play on situation 2) MC - runner lowers shoulder, extends his arms after contact. Runner is out, ball is dead, ejection follows. My question - is there anything in between? Further, can anyone imagine a play where there is an illegal slide (not considering force play, jumping/hurdling over non lying player, or diving over any player) or illegal contact where the runner would be out yet remain in the game. Our association had a coaches panel where one of them said they would like to see this "tweener" call more often. Rules 8-4-2 (b)© seem to allow for it. But, being back in umpiring for only 2 years, I was wondering if this is a practical option. Frankly, it seems sort of wishy-washy to me and I had trouble coming up with a play where this would be a call. Maybe if a kid awkwardly got caught inbetween sliding and not sliding and made contact with a catcher. Thoughts

Let's hope his timing isn't too quick when he is sleeping around... I don't know about fiction because frankly Hollywood has trouble making fiction movies about baseball in general. I don't have confidence in them making a good one about the specifics. It could be a B plot that is used to drive character traits in another kind of movie. I think a documentary would be very, very interesting. Or maybe even a reality show if it is not exploitative. I mean, they make docs about anything and everything from the world record in Donkey Kong, competitive scrabble, and others. The thing umpiring has going for it is very (and I mean very) Type A personalities. That translates itself well sometimes to screen.

Eventually, we might run out of coaches and forfeit per 4-4-1e. New here so please excuse if this is a dumb question - or just make fun of me. Just try to make it funny and entertaining. How does rule 4-4-1e (A game shall be forfeited when a team willfully and persistently violates any of the rules after being warned by the umpire) lead to a forfeit for running out of coaches? I can see you forfeiting the game under this clause if they just refuse to leave the field, but not for having no coaches. I have read the book looking for the rule stating forfeit with no coaches left and cannot find it. I just assumed this as a state adopted thing. Thanks

Even if momentary adjustment was a thing in FED (and from other posting it sounds like it is not), wouldn't that argument be on shaky ground since the OP pitcher did something else with his hands. Once he gives the "I want another sign" motion, that is more than an adjustment and not momentary. If more than an adjustment, then we have someone breaking their hands without pitching. I am calling balk.

"You're due" is one I hear all the time. New trend is super moms and dads repeating what they hear from the travel coaches: "Visualize your contact point" "Get a good backside weight load" And other overly technical sounding things that they have no idea what they mean