It’s truly one of the most obvious balks ever. Usually they have at least a shade of grey area.

Tarring and feathering ideally, we haven’t done that in a while

What do people want?

They want a level of accountability that they would never agree to themselves. The umps missed a call, they acknowledged it, their mistake has real world implications just like our mistakes have real world implications.

I’m personally of the opinion that a balk call shouldn’t be reviewable, we start talking about whether or not the pitcher is on the rubber and now if the pitcher loses contact with the rubber AT ALL (which happens in every single MLB game as the dirt around the rubber gets worn away), teams will be asking for a review.

I played in a slow pitch softball league and in our last game I hit a ball that went directly over third and he called it foul. He admitted he was wrong before I had even gotten back to the plate he was like “yeah I got that one wrong”. I was mad and then realized he was apologizing so I just thanked him for owning it. I hit the next pitch like 3 inches further left in almost the same exact spot and he called it fair lmao

The ump taking accountability after the game doesn’t help anybody. People want them to make stuff like this reviewable. There’s no reason it shouldn’t be

Ya I’m confused by a lot of comments in here. What do people want?

They aren’t allowed to review it

If only it were possible to figure out what people find wrong with that!

What I always find weird about comments like these is that there are basically three types of emotions we can feel about a situation like this: Happy, apathy, or longing for improvements to the system.

So are we supposed to be happy or apathetic in an ideal world?

We have plenty of calls now that are reviewed and “stand” because they are too tough to call. I don’t see how balks wouldn’t be the same

Players and coaches are also human and didn’t miss the call lol