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Thanks for the welcome, everyone.
I know and respect Mike from both lurking here and from a few minor questions I posted to Usenet which he answered. So I'm glad to see that it COULD have been OBS. Makes me feel not so stupid. It's also nice to hear from him that the safety base isn't logical, since the thing has bothered me since I started coaching (I basically teach them to play the base as if it the red portion weren't there. I'm going to give further thought to the matter, though.)
However, I'm convinced now that it wasn't OBS. The umpires on the field didn't see it as such. The other coach (who might have benefitted by an OBS call, depending on a possible base award) didn't see it as such. The umpires on the board in Lower Saxony didn't think it was likely to be obstruction, and the majority here doesn't think it was likely to be OBS.
So it probably wasn't obstruction.
Thanks for the answers, and once again thanks for the welcome.
jeff, goettingen
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