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Old Sun Feb 19, 2006, 02:34pm
Dave Hensley Dave Hensley is offline
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The Evans ruling isn't "wrong;" it is simply obsolete. He wrote it back in the early 90's. MLB didn't address the issue until publication in 2002 of the MLB Umpire's Manual, which changed the precedent that had previously been established by Evans' ruling.
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