I Guess I Deserved it, or Maybe Not.....

[PeteBooth]

There is no excuse for lack of rules knowledge. I can understand a bad positioning or bad judgement, those things happen, but not bad rules knowledge.

How easily people forget

Remember the Indian / O's game.

The point is "it happens to the best of them"

One is judged or let me re-phrase should be judged on a COMPLETE body of work not ONE call or Lack of a call. Look at Mr. Denkinger who received death threats and will be forever remembered for that call at first base, but if one looks at Mr. Denikinger's complete body of work he was regarded by his peers as one of the best.

Balks even blatent one's sometimes are missed. They happen in a heartbeat not because we do not know the rule but just like being out of position we simply "missed it" There are times when I believe most of us said to ourselves "I cannot believe I missed that one - He balked" but we didn't call it.

In Tim's OP we do not know how the ENTIRE game played out. Was this BU who made the no call in position the majority of times to make "other' calls. It's one thing to "get on the official" it's quite another to say You are not worth the $55.00

Pete Booth