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insatty: "A player or team that deceives the umpire is cheating, which is ground for ejection. An umpire, therefore, should penalize cheating, whether the ball is live or dead.
Any umpire who falls for the hidden ball trick should be too ashamed and embarrassed to eject anyone. They didn't cheat. They screwed up in the implementation of a stupid play and faked an umpire. You feel the need to punish them for that?
Okay....I hear the offense purposely arranging a BOO during a dead ball. Amn I going to penalize them for that?
R3 tries to score on a deadball and claims he got there while the ball was live. I'm sending him back, but what penalty should I add?
I am there to see that neither side gets an advantage not intended by the rules. The rules do not call for calling a balk during a deadball. That would give the offense an advantage not intended. Simple. It's not rocket science. It's baseball and its common sense.
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