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Fed may have some (deservedly) criticized rules (if the "accidental force play" still exists, that's one of them), but I think they do handle some things better than OBR. Appeals for missed/left bases, for example, in which OBR, without the dead ball appeal, has complex and difficult variations involving nullification, continuing action, etc.
To me, common sense dictates that a balk be an immediate dead ball, which of course it is in Fed. On the other hand, in Fed, if the umpire sees spit flying off the ball on its way to the plate, and the batter hits the pitch out of the park, the proper call is to nullify the home run and call an illegal pitch. That's a tough one to swallow.
[Edited by greymule on Dec 23rd, 2003 at 09:31 AM]
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