spell_check wrote:smithy wrote:jackpot jim wrote:Coaches, Players, Supporters, You, Me, In Fact Everybody Have Been BITCHING About Umpiring Standards For Ever And A Day. I Have NEVER Heard Anyone Ever Say The Umpires Have Had A Good Year, EVER, So Logic Tells Me That Not To Expect Any Change In The Next Few Decades So Everyone Out There GET OVER IT and GET USED TO IT............
As long as there are LOSING teams every week, there WILL ALWAYS be BITCHING about umpires.
Well done Jackpot.
the coaches exploit all the interpretations and are more to blame than the rules committee.
Exactly. The rules are made to try and bring the game to make it unique to other sports; an exciting game at that (well that's in principle anyway)but the coaches go to great lengths to do what you have said. It's not so much the umpires' fault (two field umpires would be better mind you), nor the rules themselves, but the coaches who try to take the rules apart.
Thoroughly disagree ... Every coach in elite professional sport has always used any advantage available within the rules at that time, always has, always will ... The Rules need to be set in stone to disallow any misintentions (according to their creators).
I think the members of the committee are still living in the days when football wasn't a professional sport.