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[grunewar]

Originally Posted by JR12

Why do some on here jump all over people when they ask a question?

While I will agree some of us can be a little "gentler" in our responses, in this case, I too interpreted the OP as being "sarcastic" when referring to the announcers as "EXPERTS." He was publicly putting the announcers down as to their lack of baseball knowledge - turns out they were right and he was wrong in this instance.

As the OP said - live and learn.

For the record - I've been wrong here once or twice too, or maybe it was ten times.

[mbyron]

Actually, I think that the OP is right to bash the announcers. Almost everything they said was wrong.

• Catchers INT is not anything similar to a balk, either on the field or in enforcement
• one is called only on F1, the other only on F2 (and don't get me started on the so-called "catcher's balk," which is misnamed)
• when CI is enforced, the batter ends up on 1B; when a balk is enforced, he ends up at the plate
• when a balk is called, the offense never, under any circumstances, has a choice about whether to take the play or enforce the balk
• with CI, the offense does indeed have a choice under some circumstances

The outcome of CI and a balk can be similar, but it's actually quite rare, since most of the time balks end up being enforced. A very slight similarity? OK. The claim that these are "more or less the same thing" strikes me as absurd.

[JR12]

Originally Posted by grunewar

While I will agree some of us can be a little "gentler" in our responses, in this case, I too interpreted the OP as being "sarcastic" when referring to the announcers as "EXPERTS." He was publicly putting the announcers down as to their lack of baseball knowledge - turns out they were right and he was wrong in this instance.

As the OP said - live and learn.

For the record - I've been wrong here once or twice too, or maybe it was ten times.

I am very careful about what I post for fear of attack. I too posted something totally wrong about 2 man mechanics. I was wrong and paid dearly. I guess I deserved a little ragging, but not an all out attack!!! lol. However I always read this forum and learn all the time. Some of you guys are very knowledgable.