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Originally posted by Bfair
Kyle McNeeley presented the rules changes---including those specific to pitching---to those present at the Texas State Meeting for high school baseball that was held 1/21/01.
Kyle was specifically asked if the pitcher must include "arm movement" in his feint to a base after he has legally committed himself there with a proper foot movement. The 3-1 play was specifically used as the example.
Kyle's response was a rather pure and simple, "NO" .
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So what?
Mr McNeeley has given you a perfectly reasonable, honest and accurate answer based on the wording of the rules. You would expect nothing less, would you?
OTOH, what Mr McNeeley has NOT given you is the practical answer based on the EFFECT of those rules, which was the subject of the earlier thread.
It is impossible, in a practical sense, to legally step toward the base, separate the hands as is also apparently required under the FED rules and NOT have at least some "arm movement" as a part of the feint to the base.
The point was that it may be LEGALLY allowable, but that legal scenario is PRACTICALLY impossible to achieve. If you wanted Mr McNeeley to give you the practical answer, you should have asked him for that, and thrown in the provision about separating the hands also being required.
Cheers