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Old Tue Jun 09, 2009, 12:56pm
David B David B is offline
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Originally Posted by bob jenkins View Post
All (or most) of us have agreed that the benefit of the doubt goes to the runner. But if the runner moves enough to have taken 2 steps, it's pretty clear that he wasn't on the base at the time he was required to still be on the base.

And, frankly, if I think a team is trying to "cheat" the system, I'm more likley to look more closely at a play or two, and give up soemthing on the pitch.
Thanks Bob for a very clear post. That's exactly the philosophy that I've seen used and it works very well for me also.

Thanks
David
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