Of
course, the games themselves may take upwards of four hours,
especially in the American League, which includes the unfortunate
Designated Hitter rule.

But back to the play. The team that unleashed Skunk did so
in order to entice the defense into a rundown with base runners at
the first and third, in order to steal a run, by allowing the
runner on third to score during the confusion. The problem
with Skunk is that the rules allow it, and while Skunk would never
happen in MLB, the exploitation of the rule in a state championship
game denigrated the game, caused both teams to spend an extremely
long, frustrating amount of time on the maneuver, raised the ire of
players, officials and spectators, and ultimately, failed to
work. This begs the question whether, even if such a ploy is
not against theIn The
Outfield – each represents an attempt to gain an advantage on
the other side by exploiting the system. However, even the
team that utilized Skunk became embarrassed over the play, as the
crowd became derisive, the play ultimately accomplished nothing,
and even the coach who called the play never used it again.
In other words, sometimes, the ability to take a particular action
may not explicitly break the rules, but nonetheless should be
prohibited. That is the reason most states have declined to
allow general jurisdiction are merely by a defendant's
registration to do business in a given forum.

Attorneys on the other side of the "v.," however,
haven't been as easily embarrassedas baseball players.

Thus, a lot of law exists on the concept of jurisdiction by
consent. We have a cheat sheet collecting the favorable cases
here. Overall, the vast