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Old Sat Oct 26, 2013, 08:37pm
MichaelVA2000 MichaelVA2000 is offline
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Originally Posted by Manny A View Post
There are a lot of things I would expect MLB players to do, like when a pitcher signals that he is going to catch a pop-up. But these guys are human and will occasionally make even the easiest of plays look impossible.
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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA View Post
Michael, the routine things can be called by a monkey in right field. It is the non-routine plays and calls that tests an umpire's timing and ability to get it right.
IRISHMAFIA, I agree 100% with your monkey analogy. It was good to see that when one umpire's timing and ability to get it right failed, that working together with the umpire crew, the error was corrected.
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