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I guess I'm having the most trouble with the leap between this coach issuing instructions toward, assumedly, the opposing pitcher and knowing his INTENT. Sounds to me like the instructions, had those instructions been followed by the pitcher, would NOT have resulted in a balk. (He's allowed to step off from the stretch when in the set position). So somehow we're to assume that these words, directed toward the pitcher, which would not have caused a balk had they been followed, were somehow an attempt to make him balk.
Huh?
Seems the opposite to me - an attempt to muddy the air, to perhaps get him to IGNORE those instructions later when given by his own coach, or at least to hesitate if he should hear them. Crappy? Yeah. Illegal? No, not really.
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