[AtlUmpSteve]

Originally Posted by David Emerling

I'm making a practical point. Let's not pretend that we, as umpires, do not apply methodologies that we have discovered work on the field although they may not be what some textbook says or what some party line clinician might say.

I'm telling you, that if I see a very close play on an obstructed runner, I'm always going to call her safe. If I see an obstructed runner thrown out by a mile, especially if it was mild obstruction, I'm going to maintain the out call ... and I may not know which it will be until it happens. That's how I call it. I maintain that's how most umpires call it - even it they won't admit it. And the beauty is - they don't have to admit it.

So now, which one here is being disingenuous?? Sounds to me that you aren't applying a methodology at all. You have simply decided to substitute your idea of how you think the rule should be applied.