southpaw Posted May 4, 2014 Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 Amen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FightinIllini Posted May 4, 2014 Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 No district tourney, top two teams advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FightinIllini Posted May 4, 2014 Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 Make it against the rules for coaches to call pitches. They delay the game and completely ruin the flow of the game. Coaches slow getting pitches to catchers, batters step out, start all over again. Let the catchers call the pitches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FightinIllini Posted May 4, 2014 Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 strick pitch count on pitchers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamsoncounty Posted May 4, 2014 Report Share Posted May 4, 2014 Let the players keep the gate receipts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidlimbaugh Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 No district tourney, top two teams advance. Alabama does that. No district tournament. Don't finish first or second in your district your season is over. 2-of-3 bracket... http://www.ahsaa.com/Portals/0/pdf/sports/2014%206A%20Baseball%20Bracket.html Georgia takes top 4 and seeds them across the state so one district can (and may this year?) be the final four Also 2-of-3 bracket... http://www.ghsa.net/2013-2014-ghsa-class-aaaaaa-state-baseball-tournament-bracket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishCoffee Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Adjust the home plate slide rule. In the District tourney Saturday I saw a kid from Alcoa get thrown out for not sliding into home against CAK, when the catcher was 10' up the line! Understand he is now out for 2 games. He really had no other option that I could tell other than just fall down! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocheese Posted May 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 There is no slide rule. A player must only attempt to avoid contact. Sounds like either the umpire was sucked into the same false belief of the "must slide rule", like countless others, or there is more to the situation that you included in your post. A fielder cannot occupy the base line without the ball. If the fielder was moving up the line and contact was made with the runner, the umpire may have decided the runner could have avoided the contact and instead purposefully and malicious contacted the fielder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishCoffee Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 That may have been the case Cocheese. He did plant the catcher pretty good! It was a bang- bang play as the catcher caught the ball just a split second before the impact, but 10' up the line. Guess it was actually a bang-bang-bang play, with the 3rd "bang" being the catcher hitting the dirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksgovols Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Boy, I was all set for my 'one' thing to be to change the post season format, but.............more kids affected by allowing Fall practice with scrimmages etc. For all the reasons given. Football and basketball have terrifically long seasons with additional practice times during the off season. Fall baseball is just the right thing to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
66in74 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Encourage kids to play multiple sports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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