Without any Friday night lights to discuss, we football junkies are often challenged with finding topics. Last night I was perched in my Attila - the - Hun recliner, hunting dawg at my side, DirecTV on mute, transistor radio turned to Sox/Yanks (while the picture is bounced off a satalite ,the radio is 10 seconds ahead - let's you know when to pay attention). I began to lose interest when the bad guys got up 8-1 and began to thumb through our rules book. IT WAS THEN THAT I DISCOVERED THE FOLLOWING.....
1-5-2B NOTE 1 :
".........THE THUMB IS NOT CONSIDERED A FINGER."
I don't know about you guys, but I've always considered my thumb a finger. I base my assumption on the following expressions :
"Give me five!" not give me four and one.
"Taken on the five finger discount" (slang for shoplifting)
"We have 10 fingers and ten toes" ...the big toe is considered a toe, should not the thumb be considered a finger
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Per chance, an editorial change could be written : "FOR THE SPIRIT OF THIS RULE, the thumb is not considered a finger."
A Sox player hit a grand slam, and later a fight, brought my attention back to baseball. Excepting the catcher and first baseman, all the players were wearing five-fingered gloves....or was it 4-fingered with a thumb gloves.
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