I traveled

[Mechanicsman]

Mabey he and the bookie exchanged signals...I would also do nothing.

[Adam]

No, I'm not changing anything.

[Altor]

He should just take a page out from a soccer playbook when the ball is kicked OOB for an injury. Take the throw-in and pass it directly to the opposition.

[BillyMac]

My daughter's fiancé is from Australia. He's been here in the United States for about a year, attending school to become an electrician while my daughter is attending medical school. Last weekend the three of us attended a cricket match, my first experience with cricket. As it turns out, news to me, Hartford, Connecticut, is a "hotbed" of cricket because of a large Western Caribbean population, whose parents, or grandparents, came here as immigrants to work the tobacco fields (shade tobacco used for cigar wrappers, best in the world, sans Cuba).

When a batsman hits the ball, on the ground, past the oval shaped perimeter boundary, marked on the field by a series of flags, it's a "four", and the batter's team is automatically awarded four runs, kind of like a ground rule double in baseball. Last weekend, the grass on the field was kind of high due to all the rain that we had. A batted ball barely reached the boundary area, stopping within inches of passing, or not passing, the flag. The fielder immediately signaled to the umpire that the ball actually had passed the boundary, thus awarding the batsman an automatic "four". I looked at my future son-in-law and he said, "Now that's cricket".

[BktBallRef]

"Sorry young man, if I missed it, I missed it."

[Mark Padgett]

Last weekend, MS spring league, I called an OOB and a kid from the team who was going to get the throw-in came up to me and said he tipped the ball before it went OOB. I thanked him and awarded the ball to the other team. At the next break, I informed his coach and the guy went over to the kid and shook his hand.

That's what sportsmanship is all about. It was very refreshing.

[bainsey]

I'm having déjà vu. Didn't we discuss this one months ago?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I called an OOB and a kid from the team who was going to get the throw-in came up to me and said he tipped the ball before it went OOB. I thanked him and awarded the ball to the other team.

OK Mark Padgett. Riddle me this. Kid hits a three pointer at the buzzer to give his team a one point victory. Same kid immediately comes over to you and says, "Mr. Padgett. It wasn't a three pointer. My foot was actually on the line. I guess that we'll have to go into overtime."

What's your call?