Nevada Hoya
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Jun 4, 2010 18:33:00 GMT -5
And all of the reports that I have read said that Harper did not say a word, just drew the line with his bat.
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kchoya
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Post by kchoya on Jun 4, 2010 23:28:38 GMT -5
Seems pretty harmless, but he probably said something too:
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Jun 5, 2010 13:35:36 GMT -5
That kind of behavior is really a "line in the sand" in baseball, I think, regardless of what is said and whether it makes sense to have that kind of unwritten rule or not. The hitter surely knew that he was running the risk.
I can't think of an analogy in track or basketball right now. Maybe tennis provides an example like if a player drew a line with his racquet out of bounds to tell a judge where the ball landed. It seems like you'll get docked for something like that or, at the very least, it is considered unsportsmanlike.
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Post by strummer8526 on Jun 5, 2010 15:45:39 GMT -5
Seems pretty harmless, but he probably said something too: I don't think the drawing of the line was the problem. It was the flicking up of the dirt in the direction of the umpire that seemed to be too much. If he calmly ran his bat along the dirt where he thought the ball went, I think he stays in. Aggressively raking the bat along the dirt so some chalk flies up towards the ump: gone.
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