What is going on with ML baseball umpires

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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

It doesn't contradict anything I said, it clarifies what I said, or what I intended to mean.

You should run for office, because your flip-flops and contradictions are dizzying.

How can you say you wouldn't call the runner out if "he took a step toward second as some kind of impulsive reaction?" That little impulsive step toward second is what defines an attempt.

By whom? You obviously. If I believe the B-R had no intent to go to second, I'm not banging him out, and I'm not going to go beyond splitting hairs to splitting the atom in order to justify what was a terrible call at the major league level. Those guys screw up, too, you know.

Wow, how anal. When did I say he couldn't stop for a second or two? As a matter of fact, I said I have no problem with a runner stopping to adjust his helmet or his wrist bands, and that courtesy would extend to "catching his breath" as well. I don't have a timetable, that would just be asinine.

As asinine as you saying that he has to immediately return and that you'd call him out for turning, stopping, then continuing on? Your own posts above said this, and now you're flip-flopping.

But if a player waits a considerable length of time just contemplating whether or not to go to second base, then I might consider that an attempt to advance.

Wow. Just wow.