Sun Nov 20, 2005, 12:50pm
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Spokane, WA
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Originally posted by Carl Childress
Quote:
Originally posted by Carl Childress
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Originally posted by PeteBooth
About 5 yrs ago or there abouts, MLB issued a memo to the umpires to start calling more balks because they felt F1's were getting away with too much. In the forst 6 months of that year more balks were called then in the previous year.
The players association got involved and basically said "this is OUR game and go back to the old way of calling things" if you want to umpire in OUR league.
Pete Booth
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Pete: Don't I wish you were right!
In fact, the rule change occurred in 1988 and was in place for one year until the player's union voted it down.
The rule was "complete and discernible balk," and the umpires called, as you indicated, twice as many balks.
But at my age, I cetainly wish 1988 was "about five years ago."
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So, you really don't read my posts! (grin)
Four posts above I wrote: Pete: I think you misread Garth's post. Here's what he said, speaking of himself in the third person: "He has stayed out of this mess not because he diagrees with Mr. Hopkins or the rule, but because he recognizes the futility in affecting the opinion of any of the parties involved."
I liked Alibi Ike, too. And I almost saw it in its first season. I did not know Joe E. Brown played minor league ball.
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Uh, Carl....who are you talking to?
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