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Larks
November 9th, 2007, 03:52 PM
ASA Code Changes for 08 that passed at the National Meetings Today. The good news it the banning of Composite Bats Failed heavily.

3 1 G Add: The bat barrel will be free of audible rattles when shaken. The barrel shall not have signs of excessive wear

4 6 D REMOVE: "The pitcher is not required to pitch until the first batter faced completes their time at bat or the side has been retired". Rules causes confusion.

5 9 A3 Slow Pitch: Add: 15 after 4 innings Prevent more lopsided ball games.

8 3 I All adult slow pitch, (excluding Masters and Seniors), don't have to run the bases on an over the fence home run or four base award. Speeds up the game.

8 4 F Change women's Open slow pitch to women's slow pitch. Allow stealing in all Women's SP.

This was taken from the following link:http://www.softballfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=377743
JHAMP
November 9th, 2007, 04:16 PM
8 3 I All adult slow pitch, (excluding Masters and Seniors), don't have to run the bases on an over the fence home run or four base award. Speeds up the game.

Dickie sure will be happy this rule passed.
slamit93
November 9th, 2007, 10:28 PM
3 1 G Add: The bat barrel will be free of audible rattles when shaken. The barrel shall not have signs of excessive wear

what does that accomplish? people will just take off their endcaps and dump out the chunks.
pineapple
November 10th, 2007, 03:01 PM
3 1 G Add: The bat barrel will be free of audible rattles when shaken. The barrel shall not have signs of excessive wear

what does that accomplish? people will just take off their endcaps and dump out the chunks.

asa needs to provide a pic of excessive wear
Sluggo33
November 20th, 2007, 10:08 AM
asa needs to provide a pic of excessive wear

I'm betting this rule will be severly abused in parks where the "good ole boy" network is common between teams and umps. We all know where and who they are.

I'm by no means a long ball hitter (good for only a couple a year...at best) and still use an original Crush that looks like hell, but it's a great bat so why replace it. But you know how some teams are. You put together a few good strings of hits, and they're all calling it a "hot" bat regardless of how hard it's hit. I can see this rule getting real ugly, real quick.

This is going to be just another reason to play U-trip.