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Old Tue Aug 06, 2013, 07:07am
Manny A Manny A is offline
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Originally Posted by aceholleran View Post
What bothers me is that 98% of the media is regarding this call as a gross error. From any angle, the play was dang close, IMHO.
The call itself was close. What's gross in the average fan's mind is how costly it turned out, since a correct call would have tied the game in the B9. If this had happened in the 5th inning, it wouldn't have registered a blip on the radar screen.
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