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Old Fri Jun 04, 2010, 11:09am
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Well, it was not an umpire's CALL that was overturned in the Pine Tar incident, but rather the interpretation of the rule. Not only that, the interp was protested correctly at the time by the other team - whereupon the protest was ruled on.

Judgement calls can't be protested, obviously. There's no reason for this call to go anywhere - no other calls do.

I agree that precedent would be awful if they did reverse this, but that wasn't the initial intent of my post. I can't imagine reversing a judgement call to accomodate what is essentially a novelty statistic, when reversing a call that changes the outcome of a game is never even considered.
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