IINITBTSB?

[Mike Ricketts]

Tee, let me see if I have this right:

Even with his flinch toward 2B, F1 would not have balked if had returned his shoulders square to 3B and then continued forward with a pitching motion. (Not that it would have been much of a pitch.) So the "point of no return" that made this unmistakenly and irrevocably a balk was when he instead came to a 2nd stop. And that meant the balk was for failing to deliver a pitch!

IIITBTSB! IIITBTSB! IIITBTSB!

(This all assumes, of course, that the we were analyzing this move via instant replay in slow motion.)

P.S. to Steve Freix -- don't jump on Tee for his campaign of disinformation. I think anyone who bothers to parse through these discussions of IIITBTSB recognizes it for what it is -- an intellectual game that makes us think a little more about exactly what defines a balk and what motions are or are not allowed. Answering yes or no really doesn't matter, as long as you know why you answer a particular way.