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ProfessorGAC

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4. There's Lots Of It Too

Reply to CanSocDem (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 10:41 AM

Sep 2015

And too many emulating Joe West who think the game is about them.

Far too many missed calls, that are obvious as heck on replay. And, replay has been around for decades, but my past recall is that even when an ump was wrong, it was generally a pretty close call that the ump just got wrong. Now, (like last night) i see an amp call a guy out at home and the catcher's mitt never came within 6 inches of the sliding runner.

I get how you might need a replay to see that the toe of the runner touched home just a fraction before the catcher applied the tag, but to call a guy out when he wasn't even touched, and it wasn't even close?

That's just shabby officiating.

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