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Old Tue Jul 06, 2010, 08:35pm
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Phillies crafty leftie

Video coming as soon as I can find it.

He brings the glove down to his waist jerks it up a bit, puts his left foot in, he puts his left foot out.....he does the hokey pokey and he balks himself about...

My 11 year old son saw him and said, wow, that is a balk!
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Old Tue Jul 06, 2010, 08:49pm
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Hard to see here but his glove is moving around before he pitches.

Balk on a pickoff Watch the jerk of his glove before his move.
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Old Tue Jul 06, 2010, 09:09pm
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Hard to see here but his glove is moving around before he pitches.

Balk on a pickoff Watch the jerk of his glove before his move.
Must not have been that obvious, as nobody said a word.
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Old Tue Jul 06, 2010, 09:14pm
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The problem with some of these pitchers is they get to balk because they balk a lot.

The standard operating procedure for some umpires in the big leagues is to let some pitchers balk.

This guy balks like crazy.
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Old Tue Jul 06, 2010, 09:23pm
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Not sure what the big deal is.
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Old Tue Jul 06, 2010, 10:53pm
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The pitcher is deceiving the runner when he jerks his glove around like that and sometimes pitches and sometimes makes a pickoff attempt.
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Old Wed Jul 07, 2010, 07:58am
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Phillies crafty leftie

Video coming as soon as I can find it.

He brings the glove down to his waist jerks it up a bit, puts his left foot in, he puts his left foot out.....he does the hokey pokey and he balks himself about...

My 11 year old son saw him and said, wow, that is a balk!
Yawn.

Of all the things amateur umpires can learn about umpiring from watching MLB, balks is (are?) not one of them.
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Old Wed Jul 07, 2010, 10:38am
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JW - go back to pitching for the Mariners. Neither of these are balks. You find one, feel free to post it... but neither of these are balks.
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