By his own admission, he did not believe the basic play was an appeal play.
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Originally Posted by snorman75
I forgot a play on a caught fly on a runner failing to tag is a appeal play.Will not lie, just kept reading. I will not lie being a live ball appeal I do not think of it as one. The play on th runner trying to get back to the base is a live appeal. I have always never seen it as that. Learn something new everyday.
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You're right that he was questioning the rule interpretation of the orange base, but the whole deal got off track for two reasons:
1) He got a bee in his bonnet over the "inadequate" reply earlier to his post and came in with both barrels blasting insults and sanctimoneousness, and
2) He continued his stream of insults regarding the rule references dealing with live ball appeals for leaving early on a fly ball.
It is common for coaches to not see the leaving early as an appeal (they see it as a force out sometimes), but an umpire? Insult the board, claim lots of experience, insult the board again and display a lack of basic rule knowledge...