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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Are you all crazy?
Every athlete, in every sport, does their best to look innocent when the umps are making their decision. Of course he's going to argue the call. The umps were huddling, trying to figure it out. He's supposed to look like a little doe, drinking watah from a brook when they glance over at him while making their determination. And if the call still goes against us, you argue because you want the umps to feel like you have a case because they just overturned a call and that doesn't happen very often. Maybe you get a close call later in the game.
Good God. Is there a different standard for the Yankees players than everyone else?
TM
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O.K., I'll out myself as a Yankee-hater (despite not really caring about baseball), but isn't what Thurgreed is saying right? Everyone does this. You try to look innocent and then you argue the call, hoping that, in the back on the ump or ref's mind, they feel like they owe you one.
Arod did not come off as the type of player everyone hated in little league. He came off as the type of player everyone
on the other teams hated in little league. I think the real issue is whether he made a bad call by obviously (to everyone except maybe Slave) interfering and thus preventing Jeter from advancing. If he does not interfere, he is out, but Jeter is on 2nd. If he interferes, he is out and Jeter is called back to 1st. This assumes that the rule Shifter thinks he saw exists, because although 7.09 makes the penalty for intereference clear, I quickly glanced at the three thousand or so subsections of the rule and did not see one that obviously covered what Arod did.
