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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
Not me, pal. Not even once.
I've had many opportunities to end crap ballgames and get to my air conditioning and martini, but I never intentionally got a call wrong to do it. I've had borderline pitches that would have walked home the winning run in deep extra innings, and never wavered in my correct strike 3 call.
I call it integrity on the baseball field. People can and have called me "one flaky SOB," along with other not-so-nice remarks over my umpiring "career," but nobody has ever been able to accuse me of any improprieties such as you describe.
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Yes yes yes.
If you want to say there is a subconcious bias in the 11th inning of what has become a 20-11 ball game with 2 outs, that's fine.
But don't accuse me of actively fixing a game.