I suppose if the losing team doesn't quit (and I assume they're aware of the rule), then don't you owe them to play the game? Not full bore perhaps (how do you have your heart in it?), but play it, none the less.
What I don't get is why the other team didn't forfeit at some point. Except, I do get it. I'd rather get slaughtered like this than quit. Making it to the 5th might have been a kind of victory.
Even the coach taking advantage of an opportunity to put in his bench and get them significant game time, a) how do you tell the second string and scrubs not to go all out and try to earn a starting slot, and b) in a blowout like this, how much are the bench-warmers going to learn, really?
And I have to ask: how seriously was the losing team taking this game? Or the sport: They've been run ruled in every game.
"Ok, guys, we've had a tough season so far, but you've been working hard and things are getting better. This time, I just know we'll last long enough to trigger the mercy rule."
I thought they had a "mercy rule" in high school baseball?
ReplyDeleteYou have to get to the fifth inning. :)
ReplyDeleteI suppose if the losing team doesn't quit (and I assume they're aware of the rule), then don't you owe them to play the game? Not full bore perhaps (how do you have your heart in it?), but play it, none the less.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't get is why the other team didn't forfeit at some point. Except, I do get it. I'd rather get slaughtered like this than quit. Making it to the 5th might have been a kind of victory.
...don't you owe them to play the game?
ReplyDeleteEven the coach taking advantage of an opportunity to put in his bench and get them significant game time, a) how do you tell the second string and scrubs not to go all out and try to earn a starting slot, and b) in a blowout like this, how much are the bench-warmers going to learn, really?
And I have to ask: how seriously was the losing team taking this game? Or the sport: They've been run ruled in every game.
Eric Hines
"Ok, guys, we've had a tough season so far, but you've been working hard and things are getting better. This time, I just know we'll last long enough to trigger the mercy rule."
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