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CanSocDem

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1. These are a good argument for...
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 09:23 AM
Sep 2015

...video replay which, as you know, is now in force. However, it still highlights how the power of individual umpires has corrupted the purity of the game.

An electronic strike zone is the next logical step.

P.S.

Though I didn't get thru the whole video, I saw enough of my team that I thought I should tell you that since those days we've gotten rid of all our 'hotheads'...Farrell, Lawrie, Rauch. And now we lead the division-what does that say?

However, it is a timely reminder at this time of year, especially if you are BlueJay fan and used to the anti-Canadian bias from MLB, to watch for the arbitrary power-tripping of "cops" and their need to control the game.


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