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Old Fri Dec 15, 2006, 10:18am
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Originally Posted by Dave Hensley
This is certainly not a consistent instruction across baseball organizations. My high school association teaches no such thing. Little League has a published ruling that says time is out when the plate umpire cleans the plate.

I'm just trying to envision a runner "sneaking" a steal of 2B or 3B while the plate umpire is brushing the plate, action was otherwise relaxed, and then just before ejecting the defensive coach your explanation is "yes, I was ***-to-field, but I never called time and my partner was still watching."

You may think it's a "good thing" that you're allowing bases to be run, outs to be recorded - hey do you still call balks while brushing the plate, maybe using your brown eye? - but to me it's a practice that is simply an endorsement of bush league baseball. No thanks.
Brown eye. Dammit Hensley, I almost spit coffee all over my laptop.