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

[Jim Porter]

Dear Garth,

You have called me a liar roughly 8 times in this one thread. I implied you were a liar once about two years ago and you threw a big hissy fit, took your ball, and went home. It took months for me to make it out of your killfile, remember? It might be helpful if you could recall how you felt when I implied you were lying and you felt that you had not lied.

I strongly feel I have not lied. I said, quite clearly, that those sources do not say that a balk cannot be called during a dead ball. That's not a lie. They don't say that. I see that as support for my position that a balk CAN be called while play is dead.

You feel the opposite. That's called a disagreement. And grownups are supposed to be able to have them without calling one another names.