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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn
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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Even under that....frankly, most generous of interpretations, it's still unsporting and needs to get shut down. Either he's trying to get the pitcher to balk or trying to confuse an opponent by masquerading as his own coach? I guess there's a third and the only innocent option here, that he forgot which team he was on, but short of that? Shut it down.