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Originally Posted by JRutledge
David,
You are really making this more complicated than it needs to be. It is not hard to see in baseball when someone goes out of their way to contact the ball. It is not hard to figure out in other sports and situations, so it will not be hard in baseball if you have seen enough plays in baseball to know what is common and uncommon to the game. If you need some detailed way to make this call so be it, but you will be judged on the quality of the calls you make in some basic situations. And as I said before, this is so rare of a situation I would not worry about something that might not even realistically happen once a season.
Peace
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You're missing the point. You say when someone goes "out of their way". I'm specifically talking when somebody does
not seem to go "out of their way."
Clearly, when somebody goes "out of their" way it becomes an easy call. We all understand
that.
I'm talking about the unique situation when a
very viable argument can be made that something was accidental - and maybe it
was - yet is ruled as intentional.
Already, within this thread, there has been some mild disagreement on the play.