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Conclusion. From my perspective, to accuse an umpire of DETERMINING a game is ludicrous. I've not seen anyone yet that made such an accusation and was not somehow biased. [/B]
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Well, that's only because the only people that aren't biased at most games are the officials. Except some Hawaiians, apparently.
Jim Mills's example is a case where a team wouldn't have won had the incorrect calls not been made. In the scheme of things: So what? Until they remove the human element of officiating entirely, missed calls have to be played around by the teams on the field. Hopefully training and the process of selecting umpires will lessen the likelihood of missed calls, but it won't eliminate officials missing calls , since the best officials in the world occasionally miss some.
Of course, one could always argue that the missed calls in Jim's game wouldn't have mattered had the losing team put a few more runs on the board in earlier innings. But that's just as ludicrous as stringing three bad calls together to make some kind of point.