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Old Fri Jul 10, 2009, 04:54pm
Kevin Finnerty Kevin Finnerty is offline
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Originally Posted by insatty View Post

Perception is reality. Jeter was out.
I'm going to change the way I umpire. And when a guy is safe, even though the throw appeared to have beaten him, even though 90 percent of the time the throw beats him, he's out, but I see that he's safe like Jeter was, I'm going to call him out anyway. And when he jumps up and disputes the missed call, I'm going to say, "See all those people over there? Well, from over there, a play like yours is generally perceived as an out ... so I called you out."

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