Illini_Ref,
Well, I don't really know you well enough to give you a definitive answer to your question ;-) - but, based on your post, I would have to guess that you are not a "drooling idiot".
Your post was certainly clearly written and you certainly made the correct call on the situation you posted - a call that (otherwise) intelligent people often seem to have difficulty understanding the "correctness" of.
(Edited to add the following after seeing IAUMP's reply)
Take IAUMP's reply for example. His clear writing is evidence of his intelligence. Yet, despite having been around baseball for most of his life, he doesn't understand that only batted balls can become "fair" or "foul" balls. Or, maybe he's also a cricket fan and is transposing the cricket rules regarding hands and bats to baseball.
JM
[Edited by CoachJM on May 9th, 2005 at 02:27 PM]
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