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Old Sun Sep 30, 2007, 02:31pm
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How is this not an out? This is umpiring 101 here kids, and if a guy blew this on a televised Little League game you would be roasting him/her.

p.s. I thought Eddings was supposed to be on vacation.
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Old Mon Oct 01, 2007, 03:32am
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How is this not an out? This is umpiring 101 here kids, and if a guy blew this on a televised Little League game you would be roasting him/her.

p.s. I thought Eddings was supposed to be on vacation.
Apparently he is. Missed that?
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Old Mon Oct 01, 2007, 07:57am
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How is this not an out? This is umpiring 101 here kids, and if a guy blew this on a televised Little League game you would be roasting him/her.
I thought we were (generally) "roasting" Eddings here. Certainly I don't see much serious agreement with what he did.

That said, the difference between Eddings (and any other MLB umpire) and the average LL umpire is that Eddings deserves somewhat of a benefit of the doubt. Maybe such a play is covered in some memo to which we have no access.

That said, as presented and based on the rules and interps I've read, I think he blew both the mechanics and the call. It will be interesting to see if there's some interp to the contrary published next spring (it won't be the first time some "wrong" call in MLB is either proven or changed to be "right")
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I would guess someone was really upset with his non-strike three call a few years ago in the playoff.
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Old Tue Oct 02, 2007, 02:33pm
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What inning did this play happen in?
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Old Tue Oct 02, 2007, 03:39pm
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D-man, I don't remember exactly. I think somewhere near the middle of the game.
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Old Tue Oct 02, 2007, 04:15pm
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Thanks 25,

Bottom of 4th.

MLB.com must be doing a promotion for their MLB TV package. Click on a highlight. In the upper right area of the highlight screen, click to show box score. Once the box score is up, you can click on any half inning to show that inning.

I hope I didn't subscribe by accident, not that I wouldn't love to have it.

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