AgreedSaw it, originally saw it on my phone and it was blurry. Stated many times, don't care about the lack of appeal but the lack of integrity by the coach
and inability of the ump not being able to insert himself/herself in the game when blatant cheating happened.
As long as you saying this is because of the rules and not the umpire themselves I am OK with this statement (even though I disagree with it). The umpire waiting for an appeal in this case is absolutely doing the right thing.
Missing the bag by 10 feet does not warrant an appeal the same way kid missing the inside of the bag by a few inches being aggressive.
Ok - here comes the issue because "Why not? And where is the determining distance? And how do I tell?"
So to solve this one very specific instance you would have to write a new rule specifically to handle this one idiot being an idiot.
No one wants to do that - the rule book is bloated already with needed (and some unneeded rules) plus there is at least 6 sanctioned rule books so even if you do write a rule, it may be years before it gets into other rule sets. .
The actual rule is OK as it stands - it handles the 99.99% occurrences fine. Should still handle this one fine (still confused on why there is no one appealing).
So what rule do I have to write? Change it or write a new one? For something that happens once every few years?