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Old Wed Jun 29, 2005, 11:57am
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Originally posted by chuck chopper
There was a flinch. To the trained eye of an Ump maybe you can pick it up. To the average fan..what flinch ?. I feel it should had been handled like incidental contact in basketball..no harm no foul. This is not good for the game.
If the pitcher would have sneezed we would had seen a balk I'm sure. But then again I'm from Baltimore & we hate Yanks.
Wrong comparison imo. A balk is more comparable to a violation in basketball, like stepping on a boundary line, traveling, etc. We don't "no harm/no foul" or "advantage/disadvantage" those and never have.
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