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Old Mon Jul 19, 2010, 03:57pm
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Originally Posted by JRutledge View Post
This is the reason baseball is going to the dogs. This is ridiculousness to make this call and arbitrarily decide that a runner would had been. What do they do if there were runners on base, just decide who what have been there on a missed call. This has nothing to do with ego, this has to do with common sense. Because who is to say the runner would not have made third.

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Or tried for third and failed... or stumbled rounding first and got stuck there - or overslid 2nd. This "reversal" has horrid written all over it - and 100% benefits the offense, giving them a base with no risk involved. Awful.
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