MLB umpire says that you can balk with a dead ball!

[Jim Porter]

Originally posted by GarthB
I was going to walk away from this understanding that we must agree to disagree, then you did something out of your usual character. You purposely slanted a resource to deceive others. You should truly be ashamed. If you have top rely on deception to convince others of your view point, you have slipped, Jim. You are not the Porter of the past. Shame on you.

"J/R does not say a balk cannot be called during a dead ball. Their book agrees with me."

Bullsh!t. There is no reference in the book to calling a balk during a deadball at all. There is no agreement with you. You have lied.

"JEA does not say a balk cannot be called during a dead ball. His book agrees with me.

Again, there is no reference, no agreement. You have sunk to a new low, Jim.

Wait, I get it. The real Jim Porter has been kidnapped. Someone less honest, someone with less integrity, someone who doesn't value Jim's reputation for honest disagreement is using his computer. What a dastardly act. You will pay for this whoever you are!

And don't try to follow me, stranger. I will wait for the real Jim Porter to return before I add to this thread again.

Wow, as usual you have taken things way overboard.

I did not lie. I simply used the IDENTICAL reasoning that you have used. If it's a new low, it's one you sank to first.

Those sources support neither side because it is not addressed in any of them. You knew that when you asked me for those citations.

But you badgered one poster here by saying, "There is no history to call a balk during a deadball. There is no ruling to call a balk during a deadball. There is no rule to call a balk during a deadball There is no practice, outside of Little League, to call a balk during a deadball."

Those were just some of your remarks. But there's one chilling similarity with my remarks - they both claim the sources support us.

But they don't support me, and they don't support you. They are not addressed. Nowhere is there a rule that says a balk cannot be called during a dead ball. And, as I have said, there is equally no rule that supports calling a balk during a dead ball.

You were the first to claim, "There is no rule that," And you did it repeatedly. Now, I say, "There is no rule that," and suddenly I am the scum of the Earth. Must be tough to look in a mirror.

Pot/kettle/black