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I love the smell of vindication in the morning...it smells like, Victory!
Good Morning Gents,
Why the chipper mood, you ask? Since the beginning of the MLB season, I have been telling the membership of a change in attitude for our MLB brethren. I have taken hit after hit about doing whatever is necessary to get the call right, when applicable. Some of our members challenged my experience, knowledge and sense of history. Others hung their hats on the Live and die with your call. mentality. I was chastised for saying that the mechanic had made its way into D-1 ball a couple of years ago and that the Minor Leagues was instituting a similar policy. Again and again, we saw members say how diluted the officiating had become and that huddling over controversial call looked silly.
Then a funny thing happened in the Bronx last night...
Just imagine what would have been the reaction if both of those umpires had subscribed to the mentality that some of you espouse. The greater good of the game was served. A-Rod looked like A-Weenie and the umpires remembered that they are not bigger than the game. That was a beautiful game, in so many ways!
The simple fact is we are human. We make mistakes and now have the ability to see them - close up and in slow motion! We are expected to get them right...now we can do a better job of it.
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