Fair or Foul?

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by GarthB

R2 ran on contact. When Bruce made the initial foul call, R2 stopped and headed back to second. Left fielder kept playing the ball and threw R2 out before he made it back to second. By then, Bruce had changed his call.

Maybe I'm just being thick... but it seems to me that this example should not be held up to prove that foul balls can become fair, but rather a perfectly good reason why they should not. That they left that out on the board just tells me that even the best of us screw up royally. What a horrible decision.