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Originally Posted by Andy
Dave...just wanted to point out that the specific scenario being discussed here, a B/R missing first base, can only be appealed as a live ball appeal by rule. A dead ball appeal is not available.
By the way....what's your favorite beer for after the game re-hydration???
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You make the unstated (and most often correct) assumption that the BR returned to first base, rendering a dead ball appeal moot (runner is now standing on base "missed", so has corrected). Since the appeal is a timing play (BR is assumed to have touched until appealed), once the correction is made, the appeal is no longer correct. However, if BR instead turns and safely reaches second base (on an overthrow, for example) without returning to touch first, then a dead ball appeal would be available, and could be honored.
As Darrell (and many others) well knows, I'm a cheap and indiscriminate beer drinker. Not only am I perfectly content with Bud Light, I will even turn to its cheaper cousins, Natural Light and Busch Light. Or Coors Light, just not Miller Lite. Quantity over quality, I say!! Let the self-proclaimed beer gurus disdain; I am content.