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If I didn't say it - than I didn't mean it, so don't infer, assume or anything else from my statements - I said that umpires make bad calls 162 games a year for many different teams, are you disagreeing with that? It's not evening out anything, a bad call is a bad call but they happend, this is not the first time an umpire has made a bad call - and it certainly won't be the last time.
The Angels are batting under .200 against the sox this series - that isn't the umpires doing. Now I'm not sure if you are arguing the Angles would be winning the series if not for the umpires.
This is baseball and we take the good with the bad, if you want instant replay, watch football - The umps are just as much part of the game as the players, they make those calls that do decide the game, the long throws from third, where the only way to tell is to watch it over and over again from 5 different angles in slow motion. The dropped 3rd strikes that without seeing it 15 times on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN News, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and any other channel that exists, nobody would be for sure what it was. That is part of the game and the umpire has 1 chance to make that call.
As a White Sox fan, it is much easier for me to defend the umpires than if I was on the other side but I have been on the other side and I had to learn to live with it as well and inside I knew that the bad call did not lose it for my team
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