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Originally posted by PWL
Listen. I don't need a balk video to know what a balk is. Besides, I have seen it before.
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It's sad indeed that you feel you are above the learning curve. Even the most seasoned veterans continue to look to resources like the Evans video to improve their skills as umpires. Of course you don't need a video to help you. You don't even need a rule book to help you call games.
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Originally posted by PWL
If you couldn't call a balk watching the end of that video, you could never do it in a game when it wasn't expected. Besides, all the balks shown in that video you are not likely to ever call. You will work many games before you will unless, the pitchers are very inept.
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The idea behind using a resource like this is to better prepare you to recognize a balk you haven't seen on the diamond before and condition you to pull the trigger when necessary.
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Originally posted by PWL
I don't know how many different or how many balks you called last year. I could care less.
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I only called the ones I saw, but at least I was able to recognize them.
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Originally posted by PWL
Besides when we have meetings and they talk about pitching and balks, they talk about him coming stop for the one second. That is the rule of thumb we try to go by.
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So, it's your entire association that makes up their own rules. Do you use a stop watch to count that full second stop or do you just silently say "one Mississippi" to yourself to measure the time.
Tim.