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Originally Posted by eagle_12
2. It tends to startle to pitcher to where he won't throw the pitch, or everyone freezes and then you can easily make your awards.
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That is flawed on several levels. It isn't your job to scare players to stop playing action. You should know what you are doing so any balk situation would be easy for you.
If you're calling a balk for the pitcher not stopping and you are trying to scare him into stopping then you have to call the balk really quick after he raises his free foot; if you take too much time you won't be able to stop him from pitching. So he doesn't stop and raises his free foot and you call the balk and then he ends up throwing to a base...what do you do then?
Trying to startle the pitcher into stopping is about as dumb as thinking proper timing means counting to two before announcing the call; both are techniques thought up by incompetent know nothings.