Posted on 05/07/2008 7:38:04 AM PDT by Kimmers
Bet you’re a friggin’ sourpuss IRS agent. What a maroon.
FWIW - “If an accident to a runner is such as to prevent him from proceeding to a base to which he is entitled, as on a home run hit out of the playing field, or an award of one or more bases, a substitute runner shall be permitted to complete the play.” MLB Official Rules, 5.10. A substitute runner should have been allowed.
Wrong Bar Bell Boy.
I was an umpire, I knew the rules, and I did my job correctly.
If that chaps your backward baseball cap, leave well enough alone and don’t reply.
Have a nice day!
Well, not exactly. The rules do stipulate that the bases have to be touched. As I said in an earlier comment, the fact that a player has to touch the bases at all after a homerun is pointless. But it is in the rules.
Wow, “Bar Bell Boy”, that’s a good one! My banking brethren and doctor/attorney pals would crack up at that one!
Actually, I prefer isometric exercises rather than bar bells and free weights—keeps me lean and strong, without getting bulky.
Maybe you need to try exercise sometime yourself. It might help you be less uptight, cranky, and IRS-agent-like... Then maybe you could enjoy life just a teensy, itsy-bitsy tad outside the rules.
Although you are correct that our culture is rapidly being feminized, neither this event nor the reaction to it serves as an example of that feminization.
As you said, this is women's sports. This is college softball. This is girls being girls, doing what girls do.
Now, if this were about college baseball players (men), then this would be yet another example of our culture going down the toilet. If (when) boys start acting like this—when that happens and people are gushing all over it—... just shoot me.
I recall this and remember thinking how unfair it was to the original record holder. When this happens the player getting the break is severely diminished and the record itself requires an asterisk next to it.
Perhaps some of your banking, medical and legal brethern can supplement your profile.
If you were a college athlete, then apparently you never understood that games have rules.
Thanks for the exercise tip, I will be sure to factor that in to my running, weight lifting, golf and softball programs when I get time.
Man...remember when sports teams played to win? I can’t believe all the touchy feely stuff going on on this thread. I remember when Boston schools stopped keeping score for their elementary school sports and how outraged freepers were at the assault on competitiveness. Thisngs have sure changed.
If I were the coach and anyone on my team helped an opponent score a run I’d kick that kid off the team so fast his head would spin.
ping
here’s an article from a different with a better explanation
Crummy writing got our knickers in a twist.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/collegesports/2004381880_vecsey30.html
the gist is, if she had a pinch runner, she would only have been credited with a single.
The 2 runs from the homer always count.
The exception:
had her teammates helped, they would have lost the homer and the 2 runs.
Being a somewhat local story, they ran the video on the local news last night.
Tremendously inspirational. Those gals are a true credit to their team, their town, their parents and coaches.
Really puts those 30 Mill a year spoiled, whinin crybabies in the NFL and NBA in perspective, don’t it?
She already HAD scored the run, according to the rules posted earlier, so it was just a question of whether she got to touch the bases herself or sit on the sidelines and watch a subsitute do it. Carrying her around to touch them herself was a generous gesture which cost the opposing team nothing.
Yes, but today, in this day and age, especially with Title IX, we're instructed to believe that women's sports are in no way different from men's sports; that competition between men and competition between women is essentially the same; that we should celebrate female athletes---and their inherent qualities---in the same way that we should celebrate male athletes, as if the only difference between the two was the plumbing. In that regard, all of us are supposed to look upon this story as something noble and triumphant; that any athlete should do this for another athlete, as if what this team did for their opponent was the pinnacle of sports itself.
You and me both. This "everyone gets a most valuable player trophy" ethos really makes me sick.
OK then lil’ fella, run along.
Gosh, and gee whiz, thanks. It’s been fun and I can’t wait to battle your wit again. Bring it the next time.
Have a really, really really nice day!!
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