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Would you allow a player to bounce the ball in and out of his glove before declaring a catch or touch of the ball, allowing a base-runner to tag up and run? The rule used to be that way. Just as the Jackie Robinson rule was put in place for interference on a runner. The man was smart and knew the rule of his day. The game is evolving still to this day. It was gross interference in my minds eyes, I yelled it out before I saw he called it. Had he slid directly into the pivot man, he would have got away with it. He didn't, as the replay clearly showed it. Good call.

I wasn't in any way claiming that INT should not have been called or that MLB should revert to a previous practice. I was simply supporting my previous post, in which I said the umpire made a good call and that runners can no longer get away with what they used to.

As long as we're discussing lessors of evils. The mind's eye is the imagination.

3 in one year is probably a record.

This call is the fourth since June, I think.

Pete, on the way home after a baseball game at West Point in 1965, our team ate at the Newburgh diner. Is it still there?