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Originally Posted by rbmartin
This is kinda like a defensive player in basketball "flopping". It's part of the game but it decreases my respect for the "actor".
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Disagree. "Faking being fouled" is a technical foul in basketball; it's rarely called because very few players actually flop without any contact. Typically, they exaggerate the contact by falling backwards; but there's contact.
Jeter's move is the equivalent of falling (along with the gutteral scream) without any contact at all.