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Old Mon Aug 18, 2008, 04:00pm
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Originally Posted by canadaump6
The umpires made up a new rule to please Jeter. Whenever there is a call, the benefit of the doubt goes to Jeter by default. That's the only explanation I can think of. Got to stay on his good side, even if he is only slightly better than average by MLB playing standards.
If that's the only explanation you can think of, you still have a long way to go to understand baseball, and umpiring.

The call was correct, the rule is legit and there was, as usual, no favortism shown.
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