The Official Forum

The Official Forum (https://forum.officiating.com/)
-   Baseball (https://forum.officiating.com/baseball/)
-   -   Iiitbtsb (https://forum.officiating.com/baseball/46533-iiitbtsb.html)

justanotherblue Thu Jul 24, 2008 09:02pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul L
To which the Tim C. corollary is that if the balk is based on the failure to step towards second, then it is not a balk "to" second.


And with that, I can finally agree, you can't balk to second.:cool: Because he stepped toward third, instead of second. :D

SanDiegoSteve Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:16am

Quote:

Originally Posted by justanotherblue
And with that, I can finally agree, you can't balk to second.:cool: Because he stepped toward third, instead of second. :D

I can't resist trying to come up with one.

What about when the pitcher spins around and steps toward second, feints to second, and 2nd base is unoccupied and R1 not even moving. The balk advances R1 to 2nd. Is this a balk to 2nd base?

cbfoulds Fri Jul 25, 2008 05:29am

Quote:

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
I can't resist trying to come up with one.

What about when the pitcher spins around and steps toward second, feints to second, and 2nd base is unoccupied and R1 not even moving. The balk advances R1 to 2nd. Is this a balk to 2nd base?

Well... one school of thought is: No, it is a balk for, among other things, failing to deliver the pitch after beginning the delivery. [Here it gets kinda circular - F1 wasn't engaged in a pick-off or play, 'cause R1 wasn't moving, so what he did MUST have been begin a delivery ....] So the accepted formulation [to avoid being labeled a stubborn, pendantic SOB] is
IIITBT[occupied]SB. "Liberals" add II[almost]ITBT[occupied]SB, because somewhere, someone will immagine some off-the-wall TWP, which can only happen on a Thursday with the moon full and the SS distracted by wiping the fireants off his Jawbreaker.......... you know.

bossman72 Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:43pm

Tee can mess around with the semantics pretty well to defend his IIITBTSB stronghold. Just try. You will fail. haha!


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 02:40pm.



Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.3.0 RC1