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Old Fri Apr 16, 2010, 01:40pm
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Originally Posted by TussAgee11 View Post
That's all. Its just how people may view the semantics of it.
Although that's true, semantics always determines meaning, so it's not terribly informative.

I believe Tee's point in intoning that it's impossible to balk to (an occupied) second base is to encourage newer umpires to realize that virtually any move to 2B is legal, in contrast to 1B.
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