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Originally posted by Pete in AZ
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Originally posted by SanDiegoSteve
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Originally posted by Pete in AZ
I know that I've seen this question before. The discussion on McGriffs centered on whether we should use the J/R mechanic for lower level baseball. I do a lot of semi-pro and adult rec baseball and have some really good partners. I doubt they would call it as suggested when this play was called differently in the pros this year. An appeal has to be obvious. If you have a wide throw at 1st and the batter-runner misses 1st, what do you do if the fielder walks over to the base an steps on it? That is an unmistakeable appeal according to a couple of you. What if he is 10 years old and the same thing happens but he is just tagging 1st because that is what he is supposed to do and doesn't realize that that is also an appeal? Do you still use the same mechanics and spend ten minutes explaining yourself?
I'm new here but just find it funny that the question pops up in the same form over here and the same guys answered it right away exactly like they did over on McGriffs.
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Pete, first of all, this ain't McGriff's. What a joke that place is. Second, exactly which of the previous posts on this subject said anything at all about walking over to the base and stepping on it being an unmistakable appeal? No one said any such thing.
Welcome to a real discussion board, Pete.
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Actually Steve, mine did. In the play I suggested the step on 1st would be the appeal, not the tag, since you indicated that you would have signalled safe as he passed the bag. If you would have waited and not signalled, it would have been the proper call all along, epsecially with younger players. The ball beat him to the base. There is a reason why they have to touch 1st and not just run over it.
I've seen some of your comments and they are no better than what I've seen over on McGriffs. You like to take shots at people who disagree with you. You did it over there too.
[Edited by Pete in AZ on Nov 15th, 2005 at 07:16 PM]
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Okay, I already replied to this, but somehow when I went to edit my post, it got erased. Boo-hoo.
Pete, in case you didn't read that post, I have never, ever written anything on the McGriffs board, except once, to tell people not to use my moniker for their filthy, disgusting humor. Anything else you saw by SanDiegoSteve was written by one or more of the anonymous creeps over there.
What I was going to add is that I didn't mean that you call safe as the runner passes the base. You would use normal, delayed timing, just like any other safe/out call.
Looking back on it, it wasn't worth erasing my post for.
