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Old Thu Jun 12, 2008, 06:56am
mbyron mbyron is offline
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If the defense can't tag the runner out at 2B or get him in a run-down, then he wasn't going.

The issue isn't whether the fake was good enough to fool the umpire, it's whether he was actually going.

If you don't balk this, the defense gets a big advantage (for players who shave).
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