re: 2026 Louisiana HS Baseball Season

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I don’t doubt that it’s a good thing and it will help reduce injury, but people won’t be educated enough about the intricacies and details and that’s where the arguments and tantrums will occur

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when it makes it down to travel ball and it's coming there too, I may go watch some games just to see the shitshows.

Spoke with an ump at that level in Louisiana this morning. He said you absolutely have to enforce the rules no matter what the situation is. You can’t pick and choose what rules to enforce.

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That crew would have been eviscerated had they not enforced it.


No they wouldn’t. Only a few ridiculous BM fans would have complained but even most of them would have said “it doesn’t matter”

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Officials can’t choose which rules they do or don’t enforce.
Ones with brains can figure out situations like last night

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Obviously you never coached or officiated above rec league.

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Catholic is a collector of talent because of what they are at this point.

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Catholic is a collector of talent in everything they do! Why? Becsuse at Catholic the standard is EXCELLENCE! It doesn't matter if it's a sport, band, choir, a club, or the 8th grade science class! The administration and kids expect and demand excellence from each other.

This philosophy recruits itself and is why the school is considered one of the top schools in the country! SUCCESS BREEDS SUCCESS and the best naturally want to be part of it!

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I assume you're talking about waiver from LHSAA?

Also just curious did you go to USNA or were you in the navy?

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waiver from school district / parish as the case may be. The waiver from the LHSAA is even rarer and much more complex. I have helped steer kids/parents and schools, get waivers from LHSAA (mainly kids in situations very similar to what made me ineligilbe for more than half of my time in HS).


Remember the case of the african refugee at Episcopal - they got an out of zone waiver for him as an 8th grader because he would have been to old to compete as a senior - so he was granted eligibility to play soccer. He later started playing football and then sought eligibility for him as a senior - denied(I had not involvement with that but followed it closely because I knew someone that repeated a hs grade due to a family tragedy and was denied-in 80s).
I am a Navy vet, did not go to USNA.

Judge parker turned Catholic from a AAA school to a AAAA school

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Everyone accepts it’s over. This is why refs/umps rightfully get blasted at times. Nobody cares you know this rule and nobody cares about your “honoring the rule book here”. It’s just ridiculous.

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While this is true, I actually agree with Choupique here. It’s baseball, there are rules. Coach Bass seemed to agree with how it was called. He could’ve lost his shite on the umps, but he didn’t. Because he knows the rule and knows we made a mistake.

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Judge parker turned Catholic from a AAA school to a AAAA school

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Not really sure what the judges ruling in1981 has to do with anything I said. If you're implying increased enrollment . . . OK.

There are several other private schools and public schools that have benefited from increased enrollment as a result of this ruling and not a single one of those schools are anywhere close to mimicking the continuous success Catholic has had in academics, arts, sports and providing the community and our nation with leaders of character.

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I have more issue with the rule than the ruling. A technicality that only applies in a walk-off is a bad rule.

A base on balls turned into a race to first base. That isn’t the intent of an appeal rule.

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It is not specific to a walk off situation and in NFHS(unlike NCAA and MLB) all runners on base at time of BB, HBP or IW MUST advance to the next base.

here is the rule itself

Under NFHS Rule 8-1-1, a batter becomes a runner and is entitled to first base without liability to be put out when four "balls" have been called. The batter-runner is required to go immediately to first base.If the batter fails to go to first base immediately, the NFHS rulebook provides clear protocols for umpires and coaches to handle the situation:1. The Rule RequirementAccording to NFHS Rule 2-4-2, a base on balls requires the batter to go directly to first base before time-out is called. An "intentional" base on balls works similarly, where the ball is dead, first base is awarded, and the batter must jog to the bag.2. Failure to Advance ("Abandonment")If the batter walks but completely fails to make an effort to advance to first base (e.g., they leave the field, enter the dugout, or clearly abandon their attempt to reach the base), the umpire will rule that the batter-runner has abandoned their base. Under this ruling, the batter-runner can be called out for abandonment once they leave the dirt area/baseline without touching first base.



and there is this - which is what I thought they were going to call.

any offensive player who leaves their dugout/team area or enters fair territory to interfere with a runner's advance or draw a throw is charged with offensive interference. The ball becomes dead immediately, the offending player and/or the runner nearest home are called out, and all other runners return to their previously occupied bases

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It is not specific to a walk off situation

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I get that the rule isn’t written specific to walk offs, but when else would the rule realistically apply?

My only critique of the umpires is that they failed to control a chaotic situation. When that happens, the umpire’s job is to call time and regain control.

The home plate umpire was walking off the field. He clearly thought it was over. Did he not call time to end the game?

The defense stopped competing.
The catcher shook the umpire’s hand.
Dugouts on both sides went onto the field.
The batter believed play was over.

Normal order was lost on both sides. BM had a kid in shorts and a tshirt standing at 1B when the out was called. Time should have been called to restore order.

BM’s right to appeal is during a live ball. If time had been appropriately called, Catholic’s batter eventually advancing to first would have been acceptable and the game would have been over.

That would have been the least controversial and most rule appropriate ending.