Community Standards, describing Obscenity. "I know it when I see it!" Same thing here.
There is a difference between the plays that ONLY YOU SEE.. and ones where the PARTICIPANTS know what happened. The steal play of 2nd, throw BEATS runner by mile, glove gets LAID down in front of bag, and hand goes just past glove to bag behind it. NO TAG at all. This guy is OUT. That runner, sliding on the ground, doesn't really know if he nicked the glove or not.
I watched a partner in "A" call a "Safe! Off the BAg" call on a fairly routine 5-3 play, as F3 sorta maybe "rolled" his heel up as he took that throw, which beat runner by a good half stride. Partner, somewhat analretentive, saw an inch of daylight at the "SMACK" and called WHAT HE SAW.
Oh man, this was a BAD CALL. (Did I mention that there were 2 outs, then 7 more batters came to the plate?)
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