[cowbyfan1]

I gotta agree that balk was proper as the BU in this as it turned out since F1 did quick pitch. In the future if PU is not giving a do not pitch signal and you as BU sees that, call time and go up and clean off the rubber or something. A little preventive officiating/game management I think that falls under.
I had a situation in a 2-1 ball game in the top half of the last inning with 2 outs and the batter so far back that both feet would have been out of the box if there had been one. I whispered to the batter to move up cuz if he makes contact I will call him out for being out of the box. I told him that is not the way to end a game. Next pitch he K'd but imagine the mess if he had made contact with out the move up warning. Would I have done this in the 6th inning instead of the 7th? No batter on his own there.