How things can change in just 6 months.........
Carl Childress (quoted from earlier in this thread):
"8.05(b) and (c) are a tandem, sir. You can't have the one without the other. Each explains part of the issue at hand. 8.05(b) explains that a feint includes a throwing motion. 8.05(c) expalins that a pitcher must step toward a base before throwing. The FED book says before throwing or feinting.
Recently, I found the following quote from Carl Childress posted on the URC to be quite interesting, particularly with memory of this long and heated debate regarding whether or not "arm movement" was required as part of a feint:
Carl Childress (quoted 6/14/01 from URC; General Discussions; Balks):
"A feint is anything that simulates a throw. That might be a step (without arm motion, at least in the OBR as per PBUC manual), a step with arm motion, or a simple swing of the torso."
For one who couldn't seem to understand or agree 6 months ago that a feint COULD be initiated merely with a step to a base, Carl sure seems to have changed his opinion now.
I suspect the inuendos and insults he initiated were, indeed, quite needless. Obviously those opposing his thoughts, or at least what his thoughts were 6 months ago, were not wrong in their statements and, indeed, knew what they were talking about. That is true based upon Childress' statements of today regarding the issue. However, we may need to recheck later to assure his opinions have not once again changed.
I suspect this latest statement of his on URC should put closure to this once hotly contested issue. "Arm motion" is not necessary for there to be a feint, and therefore, a feint without arm motion is legal when driving back a runner to a base provided the pitcher has legally stepped from the rubber toward that base.
Just my opinion,
Freix
[Edited by Bfair on Jun 15th, 2001 at 10:01 AM]
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