Detroit/LAA game in the bottom of the 8th right now. R1 and R3. Detroit's RHP does a third to first move and doesn't throw to first. (Of course you can hear the morons in the crowd yelling "Balk!!!!")
As usual, the announcers are idiots:
Play-by-play guy: There's that play, that play that everybody gets aggravated by, but Joe,
it never works until it works. (Huh?
)
Morgan: Yeah, I just think its unfair because the rule book says you're not supposed to deceive the runner. Well if he's not trying to deceive the runner, who's he trying to deceive, the umpire?
Play-by-play guy: It would seem to fall under the textbook definition of a balk.
Morgan: Yeah.
EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT IT DOESN'T FIT WITHIN THE RULE BOOK DEFINITION OF A BALK AND IS PERFECTLY LEGAL, YOU IDIOTS!
I want to email ESPN and tell them to at least get people who know the rules to work their games.