Thursday, July 9, 2009

In Which I Am Forced To Agree With Derek Jeter



I've long complained about the span style="font-style: italic;"span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"de/span facto/span "every play is a force play" rule that seems to prevail among too many umpires. But I think this is the first time I've seen this laziness and span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"incompetence/span a href="http://myespn.go.com/blogs/sweetspot/0-4-19/Umpire-makes-up-rule.html"defended so explicitly./a At least Ques span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"Tec/span might stop us from reverting to the fairly recent times in which umpires felt they were span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"entitled/span to span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"unilaterally/span enforce span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"individualized/span strike zones...div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-2145940307038022799?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div

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