[greymule]

Surely enough force plays at a base can produce a tie, regardless of the degree of measurement used.

Probably true in practical if not theoretical terms.

But you don't need monkeys and typewriters, or recent theory that significant events never occur by chance. (If every subatomic particle in the universe were a computer that had been generating a billion characters a second since the big bang, we would still be awaiting a single coherent paragraph.)

The problem is that the moment of the catch and the moment of the foot touching the bag cannot be defined as infinitesmal points in time. And even if those points could be quantified down to a thousandth of a second, we are now far below what anybody can discern.

Supposedly the human eye cannot differentiate intervals much shorter than a twentieth of a second. And with all the close plays at 1B, even if we could define the "moment" of catch/touch down to a millionth of a second, devices that could meet that standard would still register ties. But we're far beyond the capability of any official, coach, player, or spectator.

Except that guy sitting up on the far corner of the bleachers.