I would agree with this, except there are 4,863 other threads in this forum where all of us admit, 'I don't like the rule. But, it's not my job to like it; It's my job to enforce it.'
So, if we start making exceptions to situations based on common sense, am I allowed to just wave a balk off if it didn't affect the play, or let a FPSR at 2b go because the runner was out at 1st anyways, and the runner on 3rd scored?
I just mean, THIS is the one, out of all of the others, where we are allowed to change a ruling based on spirit of the rule, and not what the book says?