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[gordon30307]

Originally posted by CJN
what I'm talking about is like what Brad Lidge did after he gave up the home run to Pujols, he stood at his locker for waves of media and gave them sincere answers. Do you think that is what he wanted to be doing? But then compare that to the Eddings interview after Game 2 ALCS, he sits protected by his supervisor and allows only minimal questions but never owns up to his mistake -- all he does is make excuses and after his set amount of questions has been reached he packs up and goes into the private room. You didn't see Brad Lidge go into hiding after the game he did took a bunch of questions and didn't make excuses. I'll acknowledge that you are right about Bonds and McGwire, but I think that they are the exceptions rather than the rule. I will stick to my guns in saying that umpires need to take responsibility for their mistakes and learn from them not just make excuses.

1. The game is about the players and not the officials.

2. The vast vast majority of time the officials are right.

3. When they are proven wrong it take super slow motion replay from numerous angles to show that they were wrong.

4. I've yet to see a bad call, bad bounce, ball lost in the sun, bad luck etc. etc. cost a team a game.

5. With respect to Edding's if the catcher tags the batter there's no controversey. Also you might recall Crede hit an 0-2 for the double that drove in the winning run. I didn't read anything about that stupid pitch!!!!