Bush League or Acceptable??

[JoeDirt]

So are you saying I'm a weenie?

[BDawk]

If that's bush league, then wouldn't it also be bush to throw the ball home when someone is stealing? It's pretty much impossible to steal a base when done properly.

[Stock]

Right on.
It is part of the game.  I love it when my roommate has the bases loaded and skies one in the infieild with McGwire.  He knows the double play is coming, and the inning is over!  And you know what, he cannot wait to do it back to me the next opportunity he gets.  Why should I reward him for a IF pop-up w/ Mac?  He would get the same treatment with a hard hit grounder fielded by the SS.  This is RBI, it is not REAL baseball.

[Big Apple RBI Champ]

RBI should be played "as is" other than infield fly rule and throwing errors. (outfielder throws it past a stationary first or third baseman to the backstop- runners should not be able to run)

disagree w/ both.  It is too subjective to say if the "drop" was done intentional or not.  I have for one let a ball drop in front of me countless times by accident.  Read my other posts to this thread for more of my feedback on this.
The ball thrown past a stationary catcher (for example) can easily be prevented by hitting your cutoff men.  If you are making a very far desperation throw, you are leaving it to chance that the ball may not be throw perfectly online.

i think there is some question about the throwing errors (shouldjust be agreed upon before the game by both sides) but i really believe infield fly rule should always be in effect.

what is the official rule at the big columbus tourney?  i believe i read somewhere that infield fly is in effect.

[Stock]

Sure, that is fine.  But if nobody says anything before I play them, then RBI rules are in effect.  Not a big fan of changing the rules of a game.  What if you were playing the Am allstars and when you went to put McGwire in the 8-spot, you were told that you couldn't sub Mac for a catcher?  This would never happen in REAL baseball, but RBI is different.  Different rules; different game.

[BeeJay]

Mclane's just mad because he doesn't have his retropad and can't win online (I think I've pulled the dropped IF fly every time I've played him).  It's one of my favorite things to do in RBI because the guy on offense is screwed no matter what.

[fknmclane]

Mclane's just mad because he doesn't have his retropad and can't win online (I think I've pulled the dropped IF fly every time I've played him).  It's one of my favorite things to do in RBI because the guy on offense is screwed no matter what.

Yup, Beej is a weenie and so is JoeD.

[BeeJay]

I always wished I was an Oscar Mayer Weiner.  My dreams have finally come true.

[JoeDirt]

what is the official rule at the big columbus tourney? i believe i read somewhere that infield fly is in effect.

There is no infield fly rule.  It's just too subjective, especially when money is involved.  The last thing I need is to have a big dispute about whether somebody did or did not intentionally drop an infield fly.  Besides, I'm gonna be busy winning the tourney. 

[fknmclane]

I eat pieces of weenie like you for breakfast. 

[JoeDirt]

I suspected you "eat weenie..."

[malnuboy]

what is the official rule at the big columbus tourney? i believe i read somewhere that infield fly is in effect.

There is no infield fly rule.  It's just too subjective, especially when money is involved.  The last thing I need is to have a big dispute about whether somebody did or did not intentionally drop an infield fly.  Besides, I'm gonna be busy winning the tourney. 

this is a great point

[ericdavisfan]

unnacaptable

This is perhaps the greatest misspelling ever.  It doesn't even work phonetically.

ONLY BUSH LEAGUE BITCHES DROP FLY BALLS ON PURPOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!![/u][/b]

This may be my favorite post of all time    I don't know why I found it so funny, but I actually spit on my laptop screen the abrupt burst of laughter, and I had two students looking in my office window, wondering why I was laughing at my computer

[forsheet]

We play it that you have to make a good faith effort to catch the ball.  If it BOPs or something then all rules are off.  This reminds me of other unspoken rules like waiting to pitch until the batter is ready(finished drinking or sneezing) or apologizing after quick pitching someone when they wanted to call time out.  It is a gentlemans game right?  Well except for the beer bitch who is an ugly scum who needs his dick kicked.

[Attezzobal]

I like this forsheet character.

Intentional drops is bush league, I'll take it one step further.

It's come to the point where when me and OctoFranco play, if you quick pitch and you want the batter pinch hit for, all you have to do is make a sound and it's immediately thrown for a ball.

[Nacho]

It is total Bush League, and Strassy and I have implemented them as law.

However, there is a variation to consider.  Say there is only one runner on base (first), and it is a speedy guy (Coleman, for example), and a slow guy (Jack Clark) hits a pop up.  Is it acceptable to drop the ball on purpose to get Coleman out at 2nd, since it is not technically an infield fly rule (though this is a play not used by teams in MLB baseball)?  I say no, but it is in a greyer area than the original question posed.

[Attezzobal]

Absolutely acceptable, a pop up with a guy on first is usually followed by the someone asking "Who would you rather have on base? Pena or Coleman?"

[BeeJay]

The fact that so many people hate this move makes it that much more appealing.  I also say we retire the term bush league, since no one knows what it actually means.

[Nacho]

I also say we retire the term bush league, since no one knows what it actually means.

I beg to differ...

Well, the answer is actually quite simple.

There are, as we all know, multiple levels of baseball player. Your excellent players (pro players), and your not-so-great players that still enjoy to play the game at a fairly high level. The pro players do so well that they make a lot of money, and as a result, get hot women/wives. The next tier of player, the 'Bush Leaguers,' do not get as hot of women. The pros generally used to make fun of these players back in the day, saying that "the only vagina those guys could ever get are covered in bush." Generally, they are quite right.

Soon, the expression was condensed to "those who bang the bush," then later simply to "Bush Leaguers."

[BeeJay]

All of the internets pron I look at tells me that there's plenty of nasty skanks who shave their bush.