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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn
they need to stop umpiring... discerning what happened first between two nearly simultaneous events is a large part our job.
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It's not even close to comparing whether the BR's foot hit the base or the ball hit the glove first. We're talking an umpire standing behind the short stop trying to figure out if R1 left 1st or R3 left 3rd first. That's not such an easy call. The players aren't near each other. The player's have different motions. This virtually never happens so it's hard to hone something that rarely occurs.
This is similar to calling a circle rule/look-back rule violation in certain situations.