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"From Peter's original thread and discussion, it appears there may be some discrepancy in how both the NCAA and the PBUC would view the scenario . . . even among individual umpires."
How can you make that statement? What ruling or interpretation in either PBUC or NCAA would even suggest a discrepancy. The Batter swung, STRIKE. The majority of us agree with the ruling that Garth just had clarified after Peter stated that he would "call the play as it would be called in the major leagues".
Once again, we as officials have no right to judge the intent of the actions of a team or player to be right or wrong, if those actions are correct within the rules and guidelines established in any sport we officiate. If that was the case we could call a player out for not stealing when the should have. In Peter's case, he and he alone, decided that what the batter was doing did not fit his liking. He supported his action with the statement made above. Mr Garth, choose to go to the source and lo & behold, it did not support Peter's claim.
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