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- From: jhg8680@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Hamkins)
- Subject: Re: Whats the stupidest rule in baseball?
- References: <TOM.92Nov23144038@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:53:45 GMT
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- tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes:
-
- >While waiting for the season to start, here's a nice time wasting topic for
- >discussion:
-
- > What is the stupidest rule or procedure in baseball?
-
- I think the infield fly rule is pretty stupid. I mean, why *shouldn't*
- a team be penalized more than one out when a guy pops up with men on
- first and second and less than two outs? Why cut the batter any
- slack? There is no such slack when he sends a nice groundball to short
- or second. Besides, why mess with exceptions?
-
- I know the rule didn't always exist. Anyone have background on why
- they changed it?
-
- ----Jon Hamkins (hamkins@uiuc.edu)
- University of Illinios
- Urbana, IL
-