European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes thursday. October 23,1986 George will do Nof As scandalous As it at one time seemed Fidelity to conservative philosophy occasionally requires minor course corrections and Small per feel ing amendments to policies touching civilization s Core values. Consider for example baseball s pcs Ignatc hitter ulc. And the scandal of the laughing Umpire. Hitherto i have described the pcs Ignatc hitter Rule As evidence that the West is and deserves to be in irreversible decline and As the blackest blot on the Republic since the dred Scot decision. My adjusted conviction is the do May he a thing of Beauty Graven on the heart of Mankind by the Finger of god. Since 1973 the american league has allowed a do who almost always hats for Hie Pitcher because he National league did Noi adopt that Rule the designated Hitler was per milled in Llic world series Only every of her year. This car i Ner Ueberroth baseball s commissioner made a solomonic decision the do would be permit a in games played in the american league team s Park. However he first game was played in the National league team s mets Park so the ked sox Pitcher Bruce Hurst. Had to bal. It was his Fibril 31 bal in cons. The spectacle was so ludicrous thai the Umpire laughed. Think about that. Umpires Are carved from Granite and stuffed with microchips they arc supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of pure Justice icy islands of emotionless calculation. In Short umpires should be natural republicans dead 10 Lisman feelings. Having struck out his first two trips to the plate on his trip toward his third strikeout Hurst said defiantly i m serious and the Umpire cracked up. Nothing thai causes such a collapse of decorum can William Buckley be in the National interest. It is Lime to think the in think Abl perhaps the do serves conservative values conservatism s categorical imperative is tradition. Its Central principle is All improvements arc for the  and any change at any Lime for any reason is  the three arguments against he do Are tradition opposes it. Logic forbids it and it is Ami intellectual because it diminishes strategy. All three arguments fail. Tradition the National league which fancies itself too Highfalutin Gly traditionalist for the do plays pin Ball baseball on plastic fugs spread on Concrete in cavernous Antiseptic new stadiums in Houston Cincinnati Philadelphia Pittsburgh Montreal and St. Louis. Besides by now the do has lengthening tradition so conservatives have their traditional problem if longevity sanctifies the do like say the Warren court s Miranda decision is Semi sanctified. 10 players. Baseball has nine  this attempt to win the argument about the do by semantic Fiat fails because. Well if the Constitution is what the supreme court says it is baseball is whatever the rules say it is. Within reason. Up to a Point. My argue Meier Here makes me queasy so i will tiptoe off he thin ice and Deal with the notion that he do diminishes strategy. The theory is that when pitchers must Bat managers must be Ari Lolles deciding when to remove pitchers for Pinch hitters or when