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

[blarson]

There was a recent WUA ruling that was then contradicted by an interview with a crew on MLB.com a week or so after I received it. After being further pointed in the right direction it also did not agree w/ a CC reported PBUC interp.

While access to the WUA is great and I applaud it, it will not be and end all. It can be a source of authoritative opinion, but one that may still be trumped by more authoritative opinion.

Also it's my guess (as well as a few others) that the WUA opinions may be coming from Roder. Definitely an authoritative source but there are times when MLB or PBUC has gone the other way of J/R or JEA in later rulings.

IMSDO,
Bob

PS - I'm in the no balk camp. lol