Baltimore vs Boston

[Carl Childress]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MPC

Yea, Okay. What's the saying about opinions?

Here's something you wrote: "Sorry, didn't realize you were an authority on the rules committee. So you don't agree that a huge difference is that one is actually interfering with the ball "in flight" and the other can be interference with the attempt prior to the release? I think that is a key difference between the two."

Read my lips: As far as the rules go, there is NO DIFFERENCE. The destination of a throw matters only if it's an attempt to complete a double play. The reason for the throw never enters into an umpire's consideration, regardless of what you think.

I'd be adjectly apologetic if you can point me to a citation in any rule book where the text makes a distinction between interference with a ball "in flight" and interference with the "attempt" to throw.

So far all we have for evidence is your repeated assertion that the difference exists.

No, I'm not on a rules committee. Neither is Evans. Neither is Roder. We all three have published books about the rules. A rules authority is someone who knows them. Verdad?