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Originally Posted by Robert E. Harrison
You have the run of the baseline. It is not a baseline it is an endline. The baseline in basketball refers to the line at the bottom of the rectangle on the backboard.
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Thanks Bobby, I can call you Bobby, right? The only people who call be Billy are officials, my mother, and my aunt. Nobody else calls me Billy, it's always Bill. I've always been Billy on the basketball court, as a player, and now, as an official. It's a fun name, that makes me feel young. It's a game? Right?
Technically, you are 100% correct. Baselines are in baseball. We've had this discussion, usually in fun, many times, on this Forum. This is hairsplitting to the uber extreme, to the nth degree.
We've also fiddled around with "calling" a timeout. Does it mean "request" a timeout, or does it mean "grant" a timeout?
I like to catch people on "midcourt line", there is no longer such a thing. There used to be one that separated the forecourt from the midcourt, at the 28 foot hashmark, but it's no longer there, because there is no longer a closely guarded rule that uses that hashmark. It's a "division line".
I believe that there's another semantics issue that occasionally makes it way onto the Forum, but I can't think of it right now. I'm sure that another Forum member can refresh my memory.
These are a little too hairsplitting for me, but thanks anyway.