[officialtony]

I sat down and started thinking about my reply to Bob and realized I am being hypocritical. If I want others to call ALL the FED rules, I must first call all the FED rules. And as I said in a recent reply to Kaliix - I don't. SO I withdraw my earlier reply to Bob and respond with this concept.
I believe the Balk is important because FED and my association want it to be important. So for that reason, I will call it. As I said probably a warning and then the balk call.
If my association made an issue out of coaches staying in the coach's box, then I would enforce that. But it has never been a point of contention - even during evaluations.
On judgment issues, I repeat, that it is a different area completely and better debated in another post. But this issue is clearly NOT a judgment issue in terms of the act occuring.

Sidenote: been hit with a thrown bat as PU and I can tell you, I enforce that one EVERY time. Don't like it. Won't tolerate it. My pet peeve. I guess many of us look at some rules in a different light - possibly due to personal experience or instruction.

Again in my humble opinion.