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Old Fri Jun 24, 2011, 08:31am
mbyron mbyron is offline
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Originally Posted by Rich Ives View Post
The term comes from abusing the rules, not for not knowing them.
Huh. I thought it came from coaches' superfluous attempts to correct umpires.

I had a pitcher step off and throw a pick-off out of play. The coach politely asked why I had awarded the runner 3B. When I explained, he said that a pitcher MUST step off before throwing over. "That's not a rule, coach."

Eh, Mike's story is much better.
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