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Originally Posted by mbcrowder
Except that it isn't.
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Keeping a player or players from enforcing it themselves is most definitely the umpire's responsibility once the security force failed to address it. Davidson did not involve himself with the fan in any way. He engaged an on-field figure acting as a security person and directed him to solve what could soon be a major problem.
So if a slur is hurled at a player in a game you are running, you just wish he would stop or go away, and you go about your business? Well, you just keep doing it that way, and we'll keep doing what's right in the rare case that a fan hurls a slur at someone.