[GarthB]

Rich:

All my posts and references to this "play" have been made with the real world and real time in mind. I do not envision myself on all fours taking a magnifying glass out to see whether or not a fraction of the ball is over but not touching.

Like I said originally, if I saw a ball with the same realtionship to the baseline in flight touch the fielders glove, I would rule foul. That's because to a normal person when 70% of the ball appears foul, it all appears foul.

The same thing on the ground. This would either appear as foul or as a "not sure" and I am believer that to call fair, I have to absolutely know it was fair. When in doubt, or view blocked on one that can go either way: its foul.

Bottom line, in real time, even to at least half of those who say they would rule it fair, it would be foul.