NOT VERY APPEALING.HAVING LITTLE OR NO curiosity about the romance of rulemaking, we've always depended upon the kindness of strangers or awesome historians (like Dave Nelson
Dave Nelson and Cliff Fagan) to keep us informed on the origin of the species (rules). And so we have never made an issue out of what we considered the strangest rule in baseball -- the appeal play on a sacrifice fly. A runner who leaves the bag early on a sacrifice fly cannot be called out unless the dereliction dereliction n. 1) abandoning possession, which is sometimes used in the phrase "dereliction of duty." It includes abandoning a ship, which then becomes a "derelict" which salvagers can board. is reported to the umpire. What makes the sacrifice fly different? Nobody has ever given us an answer, except for that hollow bromide bromide, any of a group of compounds that contain bromine and a more electropositive element or radical. Bromides are formed by the reaction of bromine or a bromide with another substance; they are widely distributed in nature. , "It's a tradition." And that is a crock crock - [American scatologism "crock of shit"] 1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner. For example, using small integers to represent error codes without the program interpreting them to the user (as in, for example, Unix "make(1)", which . Tradition is fine, usually even admirable, except when it takes precedence over common sense or any sense at all. Like the appeal on a sacrifice fly. |
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