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Old Thu Aug 16, 2012, 09:01am
Manny A Manny A is offline
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Originally Posted by ozzy6900 View Post
Taking the call on 1 knee and a bad slide can only result in....

Umpire exits after being spiked in face
I couldn't see the video (work firewall, I guess). But I'd venture to say Gibson was probably to close to the play as well. Whatever happened to opening up your field of view by keeping some distance between yourself and the play?
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