Type A OBS always awards one base. The question is not the award but whether you would call this or have a quiet word with the 1B person to not do this next time.

Wow I had never seen the original video. I'd love to find that as well. I just had the idea one day to try to put it to a commercial and hadn't realized it would fit almost perfectly until I tried.

@@boblarson9994 Well, I, for one, appreciate you doing what you have done there, Mr. Multi-accounts! I had a Food 4 Less in my home town, which I wrote a short jingle for pure entertainment, relating the name of the grocery store to stealing, as if the store was built for thieves. I had decided once I was in a band, I would take that little ditty, and use it as the chorus, and write an entire punk song around it. One thing I remember about that place, besides being ghetto in appearance, was their shopping carts being significantly larger than standard size, as if their killer deals coupled with the extra room in the shopping cart would encourage customers to purchase more.

​@@ThinkerOnTheBusI don't even know what that account is I know Google keeps trying to have me use my Google account instead of this on KZbin but I've never seen that account😂

wrong, type A obstruction. If a play is being made on the obstructed runner, or if the batter-runner is obstructed before he touches first base, the ball is dead and all runners shall advance, without liability to be put out, to the bases they would have reached, in the umpire’s judgment, if there had been no obstruction. The obstructed runner shall be awarded at least one base beyond the base he had last legally touched before the obstruction. Any preceding runners, forced to advance by the award of bases as the penalty for obstruction, shall also advance without liability to be put out.

@@blarsonjr na you put your words very well but never have a seen a umpire call dead ball on obstruction and award the runner an entirely different base? What? Maybe little league or t ball.

@@michaelenriquez5734 those arent my words that is the rule. here ya go MLB kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJK2qJh-qaiNZpY&ab_channel=jpg901c

Non, probably should have been warned.

No Sam, you're confusing this with type 2 obstruction. This is type one obstruction, which is committed while making a play on the runner in question. The penalty for type 1 obstruction is always the next base, regardless of where the runner was headed.

the catch with your interpretation is that type 1/A obstruction is an immediate dead ball; how can the runner be safe (or out) with the ball dead? either he was obstructed or he wasn't, and that's the end of it, you can't hinge it on the outcome of the play.

Type 1 obstruction is always awarded the next base no matter what. The rules require it. Was a play being made on this runner when he was obstructed? If the answer is yes then he gets second base. You are referring to type 2 obstruction.

Making an attempt to advance to second is irrelevant. If we are following PRO rules there is a mandatory one base award.

Same genre and its no surprise I heard this as I listened to the DKs a lot back then too.

Matt Moehring you enforce the rules as written. Not if you feel like it or not.

Matt Moehring this is obstruction if you don't know what obstruction is then go dust off your rule book and read it

sometimes it's picking up the fecal end of the stick ...

punctuation is over rated :)

it was a 4 man crew ;)

+blarsonjr okay that makes more sense.

But what you said has absolutely nothing to do with the rules of baseball, he was blocking the base without the ball. Runner advances. If there was no penalty, you would just block 1st every single time.

you can't block the base without the ball. show me one rule says you can block the base without the ball. well since you can't, it will be my pleasure to NEVER see you again

I'm only going to respond because I want anyone watching this to know this is a terrible call by the umpire. I am an umpire. Now, she has set a horrible precedent. There will be several more "Obstructions" in this game at various bases with her ridiculous criteria and she has to call all of them.

first of all there doesn't need to be an attempt to reach 2nd. Type A OBS. As an umpire you should know that. The questions is not on the rule and the award, by rule it was OBS. If you rule OBS on this, the runner will be awarded second base by rule. Second, she/her ? . Check your eyes and hearing, umpire is male. Third, He/She has to call OBS at every base? This was a 6 man crew. By looking at the umpires position on the line with R1, then we know it is at the very least a 3 man crew. So, this umpire wouldn't be making calls at other bases. Also... the coach stepped out, asked, "First baseman blocked the bag?" Umpire answered "yes". He shook his head and said ok and told F1 not to do that anymore. Lastly, the post was put up there to make people think...would you, or would you not call this in a game. Would you have a quiet word w/ F1 and use preventive umpiring? Sometimes it takes some stones to put a play out there for constructive conversation, whether your call was right, wrong, technically correct but one your should not have called, etc.

What would I do? Nothing on the call and nothing on coaching 1B. Especially in what appears to be a Championship Game, since there's a six man crew (wow) and bling on the fences. It's not fair at that point to the other team to be coaching the other team's kids. During the regular season, yes, I tell 1B that he is out of position and may hinder the runner's return and if he does, the runner is not out but rather will be awarded second base. One thing I do not have here is historic perspective. If the umpire warned 1B four times already and said the next time he's calling Obstruction, then I change my opinion and its a good call. Six man crew?? Maybe there is where the unnecessary extra calls are coming from. Regardless, the calls need to be consistent throughout the entire field. All six should have made the same call in that situation. I very, very much doubt that is the case. Every brush of a body is not Obstruction, especially when there was no penalty to the offensive team. Say the bases are loaded - you're going to award three base advancements and a run for what - nothing. Sorry, I can clearly see the umpire is male now - originally without paying much attention to the umpire as I was focused on looking for the Obstruction - plus the video is very grainy. My apologies.

Yep

Best part is ... all I did was apply the song to the original video commercial ! Glad people are finding this!

It was on Destroy TV and I've actually got a VHS compliation with them on it!

@@bps3013 you got to digitize it and put it up.

@@boblarson9994 I agree. would love to see that again.

Thanks for sharing those. Glad to have brought them back ! The way I finally got the song back was to find an archive of a WFMU show online, I downloaded it and grabbed the song from it. As for the edit...thank you for the compliment. It was actually pretty easy. The video was 30 sec. The song, 1:30. I just looped it 3 times for a perfect fit. The song is so true to the ad, that it just fit !

OK so get this ... I was looking at something on their label Vital Music and didn't realize Dave the Spazz is a member of the band ! ! www.discogs.com/artist/251897-Sea-Monkeys