Thread: dead ball balk?
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Old Fri Jul 30, 2004, 10:43am
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Originally posted by DG


I understood your point the first time. I try to remember it next time I call a balk after a dead ball. And I don't think I would be ashamed that I did not know he had the ball. That is the point of the "trick".
No. The point of the trick is to fool an inattentive player, not an inattentive umpire. Umpires always know the status of the ball.
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