Please read and let me know if my facts are correct.

[Tim C]

There are no ties.

You have done an excellent job in reading, reviewing and writing about a rule.

I have seen no one go into the detail you have.

What you have done is quote the two sections of OBR that actually conflict. We know (according to Jim Evans) there are 237 errors in the OBR. You have quoted one of them.

Some experts have noted that OBR "intentionally" made the 'tie' issue obscure. I don't think so.

Baseball is a game of a finite group of rules used to officiate an infinite number of situations. That is all they are.

You have disected the rule well . . . I am not sure it has much meaning as there is no difference between plays at first and the plays at other bases.

This is a well done study with what, in my opinion, is an incorrect answer.

We know through the studies made by the NBA and National Safety Board that the human eye/brain cannot determine what happens when two actions occur in .04th of a second.

Because of this "logic bridge" that is necessary for the human mind to operate drilling down on a rule this hard maybe a nice academic activity but has little to do with actual umpiring.

Nice post however.

[Edited by Tim C on Jun 11th, 2005 at 10:04 AM]