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I got this from an insider with the NCAA........enjoy IT WAS A BLUSTERY DAY AS THE BULLDOGS DID BATTLE WITH THE GOLDEN FIGHTING SHEEP OF CITY COLLEGE. THE SUN HAD JUST BEGUN TO SET IN DEEP LEFT-CENTER FIELD IN THE BOTTOM OF THE FIRST INNING AS A CALLED THIRD STRIKE ARTFULLY ELUDED THE DIVING CATCHER. THE CRAFTY STUDENT-ATHLETE GINGERLY TOSSED HIS FACE MASK AS HE MADE A VALLIANT EFFORT TO RETRIEVE THE BOUNDING SPHERE AS THE ROBUST LEAD-OFF BULLDOG BATTER-RUNNER STREAKED FOR FIRST BASE. THE HOTDOG VENDOR NEAR THE GOLDEN FIGHTING SHEEP FIRST BASE DUGOUT BEGAN TO YAWN AS HE OBSERVED ANOTHER DREADFUL BEGINNING TO YET ANOTHER FRIGHTFUL AND APPALING GAME OF BASEBALL—HE PRAYED SALES WOULD BE GOOD THAT DAY. THE FOLLOWING BULLDOG BATTER, B-3, FINALLY MADE HIS WAY TO THE BATTER’S BOX AND PROMPTLY LOFTED A SOFT SEMI-TEXAS LEAGUER INTO SHORT RIGHT-CENTER FIELD, POSSIBLY A FEW FEET CLOSER TO CENTERFIELD, AS THE ALL-COUNTY MENTION-SECOND TEAM GOLDEN FIGHTING SHEEP CENTER FIELDER CHARGED INWARDS MAKING A COURAGEOUS ATTEMPT TO SNARE THE FALLING ORB WITH A CATCHER’S MITT. AMAZINGLY R-1, THE RUNNER FROM FIRST BASE, RAN BACK TOWARDS HOME PLATE IN A CONFUSED MANNER JUST AS THE HOME PLATE UMPIRE (HPU) GAVE THE CATCHER ANOTHER BASEBALL. THE WISE VETERAN CATCHER QUICKLY PUT THE ‘NEW’ BASEBALL IN HIS BACK POCKET AND AWAITED THE ARRIVAL OF THE BULLDOG RUNNER HEADED TOWARDS HOME PLATE FROM FIRST BASE. AS THE BULLDOG RUNNER NEARED THE PLATE AREA HE LOWERED HIS LEFT SHOULDER AND AGGRESSIVELY LAUNCHED HIMSELF, MID-AIR, IN A FLYING BULLDOG FASHION, TOWARDS THE SURPRISED GOLDEN SHEEP CATCHER WHO BARELY HAD ENOUGH TIME TO RETRIEVE THE ‘NEW’ BALL FROM HIS BACK POCKET. MEANWHILE BACK OUT IN THE SHORT RIGHT-CENTER FIELD AREA, SLIGHTLY CLOSER TO CENTER FIELD, WHILE THIS PLAY WAS DEVELOPING AT THE PLATE, THE GOLDEN SHEEP ALL-COUNTY CENTERFIELDER WAS DIVING ALL OUT IN HIS ATTEMPT TO MAKE AN ESPN HIGHLIGHT FILM-TYPE CATCH WITH HIS NEW CATCHER’S MITT. U-1 CORRECTLY PAUSED, READ AND REACTED AND THEN DEVELOPED A FAIRLY GOOD ANGLE AS HE WENT OUT TO MAKE A DECISION ON THIS TROUBLE CATCH. ALTHOUGH HE FAILED TO GET SET SOON ENOUGH, THE FIRST BASE UMPIRE MADE THE CORRECT ‘CATCH/OUT’ CALL. AT EXACTLY THE SAME TIME U-3 WAS POSITIONED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INFIELD NEAR SECOND BASE OBSERVING THE SAME PLAY AND THE AWESOME FIELDING OF THE CENTERFIELDER AND HE EMPHATICALLY SCREAMED, WHILE SIGNALLING ‘SAFE’, “NO CATCH! NO CATCH!” ALSO AT THE VERY SAME AND EXACT MOMENT THE HPU-HOME PLATE UMPIRE, WHO BY THE WAY, WAS BEGINNING HIS 53RD SEASON AND HAD MADE NUMEROUS APPEARANCES IN OMAHA AND HAD ENJOYED A VARIETY OF POST-SEASON ASSIGNMENTS AND WHO WAS A SMALL ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE SALESMAN BACK HOME AND HAD JUST PURCHASED A BRAND NEW CHEST PROTECTOR, WAS MOVING INTO POSITION TO MAKE A HUGE JUDGMENT ON A VERY CLOSE PLAY AT HOME PLATE ON THE RUNNER ATTEMPTING TO SCORE…FROM FIRST BASE. THE GOLDEN FIGHTING SHEEP CATCHER CLINCHED HIMSELF AND THE BALL (YES THE ‘NEW’ ONE) AS HE PREPARED FOR THE MASSIVE COLLISSION WITH THE FLYING BULLDOG RUNNER. MIRACULOUSLY THE CATCHER HELD ON TO THE ‘NEW’ BASEBALL AS THE BULLDOG RUNNER VICIOUSLY BOWLED HIM OVER. MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH, I MEAN BACK IN SHORT RIGHT-CENTER FIELD, PERHAPS A BIT CLOSER TO CENTER FIELD, THE FIGHTING GOLDEN SHEEP ALL-COUNTY MENTION CENTERFIELDER CAME UP WITH THE BALL IN HIS CATCHER’S MITT (THE ‘NEW’ ONE, MITT THAT IS) AND WITH ALL OF HIS MIGHT FIRED IT WILDLY TOWARDS FIRST BASE. AS THE BALL BEGAN TO SAIL HIGH ABOVE THE OUTSTRETCHED GOLDEN SHEEP FIRST BASEMAN, THE BULLDOG FIRST BASE COACH INTENTIONALLY PUSHED THE FIRST BASEMAN TO THE GROUND AS HE ATTEMPTED TO FIELD THE THROWN BALL. VERY QUICKLY THE BULLDOG FIRST BASEMAN LEAPED UP OFF THE GROUND AND THREW HIS GLOVE AT THE WILDLY THROWN BALL WHICH BARELY TICKED THE BALL AS IT HEADED OVER HIS HEAD. THE BALL CONTINUED IT’S PATH TOWARDS THE GRANDSTANDS AND WENT OUT OF PLAY AS IT SLAMMED INTO THE GROIN OF THE YAWNING HOTDOG VENDOR. WHICH ANSWER(S) OR RULING IS BEST FOR THIS ENTIRE SITUATION? A. CALL THE BATTER OUT EVEN THOUGH IT IS A DROPPED THIRD STRIKE. B. WARN B-3 TO ‘HURRY UP’ AND GET IN THE BOX REMINDING HIM OF THE POINT OF EMPHASIS WITH PROPER PACE OF GAME PROCEEDURES. C. WARN THE OFFENSIVE HEAD COACH, "THIS IS YOUR WARNING" (BETWEEN INNINGS) TO HAVE HIS BATTERS READY TO HIT. D. CALL B-3 OUT FOR BATTING OUT OF ORDER AS LONG AS THE DEFENSE APPEALS IN A TIMELY MANNER BEFORE THEY LEAVE THE INFIELD AREA. E. CALL B-3 OUT FOR AN ILLEGAL BAT AS HE RUNS TO FIRST BASE. F. ALLOW THE APPEAL OF AN ILLEGAL GLOVE USED BY THE CENTERFIELDER. G. CALL R-1 OUT ON APPEAL FOR LEAVING FIRST BASE TOO SOON AS LONG AS THE DEFENSE DOES NOT ABUSE THE APPEAL PRIVILEGES. (THIS ALSO ENTIRELY DEPENDS WHICH BASE UMPIRE THE DEFENSE APPEALS TO SINCE THEY BOTH HAD DIFFERENT CALLS ON THE SAME PLAY.) H. CALL R-1 OUT FOR MAKING A MOCKERY OF THE GAME AND RUNING THE BASES BACKWARDS OR FOR ABANDONING HIS BASE. EITHER ONE APPLIES TO THIS PLAY. I. U-1 HAS RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CATCH/NO CATCH IN RIGHT-CENTER FIELD, SLIGHTLY TOWARDS CENTER FIELD. J. U-3 HAS RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CATCH/NO CATCH IN RIGHT-CENTER FIELD, SLIGHTLY TOWARDS CENTER FIELD. K. HPU HAS RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CATCH/NO CATCH IN RIGHT-CENTER FIELD, SLIGHTLY TOWARDS CENTER FIELD. L. PLACE R-1 AT SECOND BASE AND THE BATTER-RUNNER AT THIRD BASE. M. ALLOW THE PITCHER TO BAT FOR B-3. N. ALLOW THE DH TO RUN FOR R-1. R-1 CAN RE-ENTER AT A LATER TIME. O. ALLOW THE DH TO RUN FOR R-1 BUT ONLY THIS ONE TIME. P. CALL R-1 OUT FOR THE INTERFERENCE OF THE FIRST BASE COACH. Q. CALL R-1 AND THE BATTER-RUNNER OUT FOR THE INTERFERENCE OF THE FIRST BASE COACH. R. EJECT THE FIRST BASE COACH BUT DO NOT CALL ANYBODY OUT. S. AWARD R-1 HOME AND THE BATTER-RUNNER THIRD BASE FOR THE DETACHED EQUIPMENT OF THE FIRST BASEMAN. T. THERE ARE NO PENALTIES FOR THE FIRST BASE COACH INTERFERENCE AND THE DETACHED EQUIPMENT BECAUSE THEY ARE SIMILAR ACTS COMMITTED AT ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME AND THEY CANCEL EACH OTHER. ALSO THIS IS AN 'UNCATCHABLE' THROWN BALL. NO PENALTY. U. SUSPEND THE GAME UNTIL THE PARAMEDICS CAN REMOVE THE HOTDOG VENDOR OUT OF ‘SIGHT AND SOUND’ FROM THE PLAYING FIELD. V. A AND B. W. C AND E. X. G AND H AND SOMETIMES O. Y. G, H, L AND M BUT NEVER R. Z. F THRU L ARE TRUE. AA. EJECT R-1 FOR MALICIOUS CONTACT BUT SCORE THE RUN FOR THE CATCHER’S USE OF AN ILLEGAL BALL. BB. EJECT BOTH R-1 AND THE CATCHER FOR ILLEGAL ACTS. CC. EJECT AND SUSPEND R-1 FOR RUNNING THE BASES ILLEGALLY AND FOR HIS ILLEGAL SLIDE—BUT SCORE THE RUN. DD. THE ACTS OF THE ILLEGAL BAT USED BY B-3 AND THE ILLEGAL BALL USED BY THE CATCHER ARE 'OFFSETTING' AND CANCEL EACH OTHER. NO PENALTY. EE. WARN THE CATCHER TO NEVER EVER USE AN ILLEGAL BALL AGAIN. FF. ALL THE UMPIRES SHOULD GET TOGETHER, ELECT A CREW CHIEF AND 'GET THE CALL RIGHT' BEFORE IT IS PROTESTED BY BOTH TEAMS. GG. THIS IS NOT THE PROPER TIME TO GET TOGETHER TO 'GET THE CALL RIGHT'. HH. ALWAYS PAY ATTENTION TO THE GAME FROM THE STANDS AND ESPECIALLY WHEN UMPIRING. II. ALL OF THE ABOVE IS TRUE.

I got this from an insider with the NCAA........enjoy IT WAS A BLUSTERY DAY AS THE BULLDOGS DID BATTLE WITH THE GOLDEN FIGHTING SHEEP OF CITY COLLEGE. THE SUN HAD JUST BEGUN TO SET IN DEEP LEFT-CENTER FIELD IN THE BOTTOM OF THE FIRST INNING AS A CALLED THIRD STRIKE ARTFULLY ELUDED THE DIVING CATCHER. THE CRAFTY STUDENT-ATHLETE GINGERLY TOSSED HIS FACE MASK AS HE MADE A VALLIANT EFFORT TO RETRIEVE THE BOUNDING SPHERE AS THE ROBUST LEAD-OFF BULLDOG BATTER-RUNNER STREAKED FOR FIRST BASE. THE HOTDOG VENDOR NEAR THE GOLDEN FIGHTING SHEEP FIRST BASE DUGOUT BEGAN TO YAWN AS HE OBSERVED ANOTHER DREADFUL BEGINNING TO YET ANOTHER FRIGHTFUL AND APPALING GAME OF BASEBALL—HE PRAYED SALES WOULD BE GOOD THAT DAY. THE FOLLOWING BULLDOG BATTER, B-3, FINALLY MADE HIS WAY TO THE BATTER’S BOX AND PROMPTLY LOFTED A SOFT SEMI-TEXAS LEAGUER INTO SHORT RIGHT-CENTER FIELD, POSSIBLY A FEW FEET CLOSER TO CENTERFIELD, AS THE ALL-COUNTY MENTION-SECOND TEAM GOLDEN FIGHTING SHEEP CENTER FIELDER CHARGED INWARDS MAKING A COURAGEOUS ATTEMPT TO SNARE THE FALLING ORB WITH A CATCHER’S MITT. AMAZINGLY R-1, THE RUNNER FROM FIRST BASE, RAN BACK TOWARDS HOME PLATE IN A CONFUSED MANNER JUST AS THE HOME PLATE UMPIRE (HPU) GAVE THE CATCHER ANOTHER BASEBALL. THE WISE VETERAN CATCHER QUICKLY PUT THE ‘NEW’ BASEBALL IN HIS BACK POCKET AND AWAITED THE ARRIVAL OF THE BULLDOG RUNNER HEADED TOWARDS HOME PLATE FROM FIRST BASE. AS THE BULLDOG RUNNER NEARED THE PLATE AREA HE LOWERED HIS LEFT SHOULDER AND AGGRESSIVELY LAUNCHED HIMSELF, MID-AIR, IN A FLYING BULLDOG FASHION, TOWARDS THE SURPRISED GOLDEN SHEEP CATCHER WHO BARELY HAD ENOUGH TIME TO RETRIEVE THE ‘NEW’ BALL FROM HIS BACK POCKET. MEANWHILE BACK OUT IN THE SHORT RIGHT-CENTER FIELD AREA, SLIGHTLY CLOSER TO CENTER FIELD, WHILE THIS PLAY WAS DEVELOPING AT THE PLATE, THE GOLDEN SHEEP ALL-COUNTY CENTERFIELDER WAS DIVING ALL OUT IN HIS ATTEMPT TO MAKE AN ESPN HIGHLIGHT FILM-TYPE CATCH WITH HIS NEW CATCHER’S MITT. U-1 CORRECTLY PAUSED, READ AND REACTED AND THEN DEVELOPED A FAIRLY GOOD ANGLE AS HE WENT OUT TO MAKE A DECISION ON THIS TROUBLE CATCH. ALTHOUGH HE FAILED TO GET SET SOON ENOUGH, THE FIRST BASE UMPIRE MADE THE CORRECT ‘CATCH/OUT’ CALL. AT EXACTLY THE SAME TIME U-3 WAS POSITIONED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INFIELD NEAR SECOND BASE OBSERVING THE SAME PLAY AND THE AWESOME FIELDING OF THE CENTERFIELDER AND HE EMPHATICALLY SCREAMED, WHILE SIGNALLING ‘SAFE’, “NO CATCH! NO CATCH!” ALSO AT THE VERY SAME AND EXACT MOMENT THE HPU-HOME PLATE UMPIRE, WHO BY THE WAY, WAS BEGINNING HIS 53RD SEASON AND HAD MADE NUMEROUS APPEARANCES IN OMAHA AND HAD ENJOYED A VARIETY OF POST-SEASON ASSIGNMENTS AND WHO WAS A SMALL ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE SALESMAN BACK HOME AND HAD JUST PURCHASED A BRAND NEW CHEST PROTECTOR, WAS MOVING INTO POSITION TO MAKE A HUGE JUDGMENT ON A VERY CLOSE PLAY AT HOME PLATE ON THE RUNNER ATTEMPTING TO SCORE…FROM FIRST BASE. THE GOLDEN FIGHTING SHEEP CATCHER CLINCHED HIMSELF AND THE BALL (YES THE ‘NEW’ ONE) AS HE PREPARED FOR THE MASSIVE COLLISSION WITH THE FLYING BULLDOG RUNNER. MIRACULOUSLY THE CATCHER HELD ON TO THE ‘NEW’ BASEBALL AS THE BULLDOG RUNNER VICIOUSLY BOWLED HIM OVER. MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH, I MEAN BACK IN SHORT RIGHT-CENTER FIELD, PERHAPS A BIT CLOSER TO CENTER FIELD, THE FIGHTING GOLDEN SHEEP ALL-COUNTY MENTION CENTERFIELDER CAME UP WITH THE BALL IN HIS CATCHER’S MITT (THE ‘NEW’ ONE, MITT THAT IS) AND WITH ALL OF HIS MIGHT FIRED IT WILDLY TOWARDS FIRST BASE. AS THE BALL BEGAN TO SAIL HIGH ABOVE THE OUTSTRETCHED GOLDEN SHEEP FIRST BASEMAN, THE BULLDOG FIRST BASE COACH INTENTIONALLY PUSHED THE FIRST BASEMAN TO THE GROUND AS HE ATTEMPTED TO FIELD THE THROWN BALL. VERY QUICKLY THE BULLDOG FIRST BASEMAN LEAPED UP OFF THE GROUND AND THREW HIS GLOVE AT THE WILDLY THROWN BALL WHICH BARELY TICKED THE BALL AS IT HEADED OVER HIS HEAD. THE BALL CONTINUED IT’S PATH TOWARDS THE GRANDSTANDS AND WENT OUT OF PLAY AS IT SLAMMED INTO THE GROIN OF THE YAWNING HOTDOG VENDOR. WHICH ANSWER(S) OR RULING IS BEST FOR THIS ENTIRE SITUATION? A. CALL THE BATTER OUT EVEN THOUGH IT IS A DROPPED THIRD STRIKE. B. WARN B-3 TO ‘HURRY UP’ AND GET IN THE BOX REMINDING HIM OF THE POINT OF EMPHASIS WITH PROPER PACE OF GAME PROCEEDURES. C. WARN THE OFFENSIVE HEAD COACH, "THIS IS YOUR WARNING" (BETWEEN INNINGS) TO HAVE HIS BATTERS READY TO HIT. D. CALL B-3 OUT FOR BATTING OUT OF ORDER AS LONG AS THE DEFENSE APPEALS IN A TIMELY MANNER BEFORE THEY LEAVE THE INFIELD AREA. E. CALL B-3 OUT FOR AN ILLEGAL BAT AS HE RUNS TO FIRST BASE. F. ALLOW THE APPEAL OF AN ILLEGAL GLOVE USED BY THE CENTERFIELDER. G. CALL R-1 OUT ON APPEAL FOR LEAVING FIRST BASE TOO SOON AS LONG AS THE DEFENSE DOES NOT ABUSE THE APPEAL PRIVILEGES. (THIS ALSO ENTIRELY DEPENDS WHICH BASE UMPIRE THE DEFENSE APPEALS TO SINCE THEY BOTH HAD DIFFERENT CALLS ON THE SAME PLAY.) H. CALL R-1 OUT FOR MAKING A MOCKERY OF THE GAME AND RUNING THE BASES BACKWARDS OR FOR ABANDONING HIS BASE. EITHER ONE APPLIES TO THIS PLAY. I. U-1 HAS RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CATCH/NO CATCH IN RIGHT-CENTER FIELD, SLIGHTLY TOWARDS CENTER FIELD. J. U-3 HAS RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CATCH/NO CATCH IN RIGHT-CENTER FIELD, SLIGHTLY TOWARDS CENTER FIELD. K. HPU HAS RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CATCH/NO CATCH IN RIGHT-CENTER FIELD, SLIGHTLY TOWARDS CENTER FIELD. L. PLACE R-1 AT SECOND BASE AND THE BATTER-RUNNER AT THIRD BASE. M. ALLOW THE PITCHER TO BAT FOR B-3. N. ALLOW THE DH TO RUN FOR R-1. R-1 CAN RE-ENTER AT A LATER TIME. O. ALLOW THE DH TO RUN FOR R-1 BUT ONLY THIS ONE TIME. P. CALL R-1 OUT FOR THE INTERFERENCE OF THE FIRST BASE COACH. Q. CALL R-1 AND THE BATTER-RUNNER OUT FOR THE INTERFERENCE OF THE FIRST BASE COACH. R. EJECT THE FIRST BASE COACH BUT DO NOT CALL ANYBODY OUT. S. AWARD R-1 HOME AND THE BATTER-RUNNER THIRD BASE FOR THE DETACHED EQUIPMENT OF THE FIRST BASEMAN. T. THERE ARE NO PENALTIES FOR THE FIRST BASE COACH INTERFERENCE AND THE DETACHED EQUIPMENT BECAUSE THEY ARE SIMILAR ACTS COMMITTED AT ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME AND THEY CANCEL EACH OTHER. ALSO THIS IS AN 'UNCATCHABLE' THROWN BALL. NO PENALTY. U. SUSPEND THE GAME UNTIL THE PARAMEDICS CAN REMOVE THE HOTDOG VENDOR OUT OF ‘SIGHT AND SOUND’ FROM THE PLAYING FIELD. V. A AND B. W. C AND E. X. G AND H AND SOMETIMES O. Y. G, H, L AND M BUT NEVER R. Z. F THRU L ARE TRUE. AA. EJECT R-1 FOR MALICIOUS CONTACT BUT SCORE THE RUN FOR THE CATCHER’S USE OF AN ILLEGAL BALL. BB. EJECT BOTH R-1 AND THE CATCHER FOR ILLEGAL ACTS. CC. EJECT AND SUSPEND R-1 FOR RUNNING THE BASES ILLEGALLY AND FOR HIS ILLEGAL SLIDE—BUT SCORE THE RUN. DD. THE ACTS OF THE ILLEGAL BAT USED BY B-3 AND THE ILLEGAL BALL USED BY THE CATCHER ARE 'OFFSETTING' AND CANCEL EACH OTHER. NO PENALTY. EE. WARN THE CATCHER TO NEVER EVER USE AN ILLEGAL BALL AGAIN. FF. ALL THE UMPIRES SHOULD GET TOGETHER, ELECT A CREW CHIEF AND 'GET THE CALL RIGHT' BEFORE IT IS PROTESTED BY BOTH TEAMS. GG. THIS IS NOT THE PROPER TIME TO GET TOGETHER TO 'GET THE CALL RIGHT'. HH. ALWAYS PAY ATTENTION TO THE GAME FROM THE STANDS AND ESPECIALLY WHEN UMPIRING. II. ALL OF THE ABOVE IS TRUE.