NFHS balk rule revisted

[tcarilli]

Originally Posted by Tim C

Garth alluded to Oregon's State Rules Interpretor who said to a group of 100 umpires that an NFHS pitcher could try a pick off from THE WIND UP position without first disengaging.

Tim,

Boy am I glad I live in a place with more understanding than that! Unfortunately, the best rules guys are not always the guys in charge of the interpreting and presenting for lots of reasons not related to knowledge. In economics we say that there are two ways to have a comparative advantage at X (rules interpretation) you can either be better than any one else at X or everybody else is better than you at everything but X.