Mon Jul 02, 2007, 02:28am
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In Time Out
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: In a hut
Posts: 911
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Originally Posted by mbyron
I had one of our association's notorious Smitties again tonight for a double header. Sweet man, been doing baseball since the Cleveland Spiders played. But oh, what a Smitty.
Last time we worked, we had a disagreement about balks. He declared that, with R3, the pitcher could not throw to F5 away from the base, and if he did it was a balk. I said nope. Dear old Smitty insisted that the rule was F1 has to throw to the base, and encouraged me to go look it up when I got home.
He followed up with me today, asking if I looked it up. Still insists that throwing to F5 away from the base is a balk. What would you tell Smitty?
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Nothing and move on.
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