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Originally Posted by Jay R
Same crew last night Dodgers-Mets. Manny is out on a called strike three that's 4-5 inches outside by john Hirshbeck. Manny flips his equipment and gets tossed by Hirshbeck. Get the feeling that Marty Foster was thinking to himself "you could call that pitch a strike years ago but the game has changed". The shoe was on the other foot tonight.
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Irony is sometimes delicious. Too bad there wasn't someone who could throw Hirschbeck under the bus.
Don't get me wrong - Foster wasn't too bright with his comment to Jeter (although Jeter didn't have to turn it into the media circus it became) -- but Hirschbeck didn't have to say what he did, either. I'd never say something like this about an umpire on my crew and I'm just a pissant amateur umpire.