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Originally Posted by ozzy6900
My philosophy is simple - FED says it is a balk so I am a FED umpire and I should be calling the game the same as Tee or Steve on the West Coast. States and rule interpreters should not change the rules!
My opinion - it is the stupidest thing that I have ever heard of. My son used to do the gorilla arm to "get the blood going". It is not a deception at all - but as Tee impressed on me, it is a mechanical flaw that is prohibited (for now) by the FED rulings.
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See Oz, my philosophy is: i equate the gorrilla arm to holding in football. If holding in football occurs away from the play and had no effect on the play, it's not going to get called.
Likewise for the gorrilla arm- if it had no effect on the play (ie- wasn't trying to deceive the runner), then i don't think it should be called. I think my state guy is thinking along the same lines.