Where's Peter?

[LDUB]

Originally posted by Carl Childress
R3. Pitcher in the wind-up. His coach yells, "Curly, pitch from the stretch." So Curly slowly and deliberately steps off the rubber with the wrong foot. I argued in an article that since everybody knew the pitcher was simply changing positions, the umpire should not call a balk.

A gentleman named, uh, you, followed me around telling me how stupid that was. "That's a balk, and that's all there is to it."

...would it be fair for me to ask for a list of other rules you have no intention of "sticking up their backsides"?

Didn't you just ignore a rule?

In Rich's stitch, everyone knows that the other guy isn't the pitcher. He is just fooling around. How is this any different than ignoring a balk because everyone knows the pitcher is just changing positions?