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Originally posted by bob jenkins
You cannot logically reconcile balking one move and not balking the other.
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Sure I can -- it's not the step in either case that makes it a balk. It's the raising of the arms that makes it a balk.
If you follow Kalix's "logic" then there's no difference betwen a (normal) step-off and a (normal) step back with the non-pivot foot -- those are both MOTIONs associated with the pitch -- so even the normal step back should be a balk. [/B][/QUOTE]
Yes, from windup, the normal step back, IF NOT FOLLOWED BY A PITCH, should be a balk. I don't find fault with Kalix's logic as you've summarized it.
We're back into umpires dancing on the head of a pin. Ironic that one of your posts brought us back from that realm, and now another of yours has completed the roundtrip back into the dancing world.