if you honestly thought he was out, sure.......... but clearly a receiver knows when the ball bounces a foot infront of him and then he catches it........ he shouldn't stand up and make it look like he caught it...... interference is a lot more subjective.....so i could see some misunderstandings there, but a ball that hits the turf is an incomplete pass.....

I wonder if a professional golfer would cheat if they could and they knew they wouldn't get caught? Maybe roll the ball around for a better lie?


[QUOTE]Originally posted by magician
When I was playing Colt baseball many, many years ago I had an interesting situation.

 

In another game a ball came into home from the outfield as a runner was trying to score. Our catcher backhanded it (on the first-base side) and spun around to tag the runner before he got to the plate. As his glove was coming around to tag the runner, the ball was in his right hand, following his gloved left hand closely. The glove tagged the runner, the runner touched the plate, then the ball slapped (back) into the glove. The umpire didn't see the ball in the catcher's free hand and called the runner out.

When my sons were playing in Little League we had a runner tagged about 10 feet from the plate. I was watching from behind the backstop as the runner walked toward the third-base dugout. I told him to go touch home plate.

"He tagged me out."

"Go touch home plate."

He slowly walked back and touched home. The plate umpire looked at me somewhat quizzically. I told him that the catcher had had the ball in his right hand and had tagged the runner with an empty glove. The home plate umpire asked the second-base umpire if he'd seen it, the second-base umpire confirmed what I'd said, and the plate umpire called him safe at home.

Sometimes it works one way, sometimes the other. In any case, I prefer it to work my way.

 

I honestly knew that I didn't have any idea if he were safe or out, and I honestly knew that the umpire also didn't (couldn't) have any idea: his view was worse than mine. I also knew that I was in the perfect position to influence the call, and that that influence had to occur before the call was made.