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My brain really doesn't work that fast - in the continuing action of a baseball game it's hard enough just determining IF there was obstruction much less trying to determine WHY it occurred and what MAY have happened. If I call the obstruction I then have time to think about it - and award bases the runner would have reached had there been no obstruction (in FED I don't even have to think that hard - he's going to get at least one). Breaking the rules and paying the penalty is ONE way players learn what they can and cannot do - if I call obstruction on that first baseman he most likely won't be in the way in the future.
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