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MLB Playoff Umpires May Need Help: Who’s Watching the Watchmen?
Published by Johnathan Kroncke on October 13, 2009
Article Source: Bleacher Report - MLB
Referees, umpires, line judges—all are as greatly despised as they are under-appreciated. And in many cases, the vitriol aimed at them is entirely unjust.
No one ever congratulates an ump for calling a good game or a ref for throwing a flag. Instead, fans rain vicious auditory attacks down upon the weary officials, whether or not they've earned them.
In this year's baseball playoffs, however, the bleacher creature jeers and jests are well-deserved.
Beginning with a botched hit-by-pitch call in the one-game playoff between the Minnesota Twins and Detroit Tigers, Major League umpires have been blowing calls left, rig...
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