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Nit-Pick'n
PeteBooth: I don't know how to disagree with you more. I'm a firm believer that every rule should be enforced. And if you are a NFHS Licensed Umpire, I think you should follow their example:
"Umpires have the responsibility to enforce the rules in a consistent manner. Umpires are not authorized to create new rules on the field, nor are they authorized to choose which rules they will or will not enforce. An umpire's personal opinion about the value of a rule is not to have an effect on the enforcement of the rule."
Furthermore, the sole point of my post was the fact that until the Umpire grants "Time", the ball is still live. The umpire could have refused to grant time and urged the pitcher to immediately return to the mound to deliver a pitch. THEN . . . we fall into your situation. If the pitcher then "dilly-dallies" around and doesn't do as asked, the umpire could enforce the 20 second rule.
But fellas . . . if we are playing under a certain set of rules. We just can't leave SOME of them out. Come on.
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