Batter advance to second on wild pitch

Originally Posted by RPatrino

Those 'idiot' coaches are looking for 'bigger idiot' umpires who hopefully will kill the play before anything bad can happen. Don't be so quick to label coaches as 'idiots'.

Maybe Sgavre is a coach or fan? Certainly he's not an umpire.

I'm not referring to coaches as idiots in general. I'm referring to coaches who by experience are expected to know that a walk is a live ball action and that time should not be asked for until the BR gets to first. I don't expect coaches first starting out to understand, but there is absolutely no excuse for a HS level coach to not know, and if they do it as a ploy to kill the action, they ought to be tossed - no ifs, ands, or buts about it. And yes, there are some bigger idiot umpires out there.

Sgavre may in fact be a coach or a fan. He also realizes he is not aware of the rule, and I would also think that he knows I'm not referring to him as an idiot.