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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".
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No. The point of the trick is to fool an inattentive player, not an inattentive umpire. Umpires always know the status of the ball.