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Originally posted by TwoBits
It's not just ignorant blues who call it this way. There are some ignorant former professional players who believe this as well.
Last year, a well-know former MLB player who coaches an elite travel team put up a $100 protest fee to protest the very same call described in the first message of this thread. He made the same claim: R1 is stealing, therefore, first base is unoccupied. He even went as far as to say that he had a well-known former MLB umpire on speed dial on his cell phone and we could clear this up right away.
Of course, he lost the protest and his protest fee, but I doubt $100 meant much to him anyway.
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MLB players are paid to play, not to know the rules. There are a couple of former players in Spokane who coach and there are no coaches less cognizant about the rules than those fence posts.
One pitched in the Majors for years and still argues that a jump turn is disengaging from the rubber.