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Originally Posted by David Emerling
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.
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My point to you David, this is usually so unique that you would be able to see an act that was trying to get an advantage from some type of movement. If you cannot tell, then make the right call that is appropriate to the situation. Otherwise, this seems to be something that you act like has to be like a soccer motion or that they have to do something so obvious to be called or realized. As I said before, this would be so rare of a situation, I think any experienced umpire could make the right call if it was intentional. Remember you can be called out for contacting a live ball without doing anything intentional, so why worry so much about a situation that would have to have a perfect set of circumstances to even rule on an intentional act?
Peace