I watch at least 150 games every year, and even though I've only been watching baseball for probably 7-8 years, that's still a lot of baseball.
This wasn't a situation where someone ran 6 feet off the chaulk line to go around a catcher or where someone evaded a tag with fancy arm movements. This was a situation where someone ran all the way around behind home plate and then only actually got to the plate itself when he was laying in the left-handed batters' box. I can't recall ever seeing something like this on 1000+ games.
If this "happens all the time" like you claim, then surely you can remember a few times when someone first touches homeplate while laying on the first-base side of home, right? If what Ichiro did was allowed, then you would see people coming to a stop as they approach home and then stutterstepping and crap to avoid the tag and then circling around behind the now-prone catcher who fell flat on his face while trying to make the tag.
You don't come home from the first-base side. That's the crap you learn in tee-ball. If you don't understand that is "out of the ordinary" or that calling someone safe for doing it is ridiculous, then I don't know what more to say.
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