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Four umpires are better than six

By Tim Keown
Page 2

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The biggest and most unnecessary affectation in sports is baseball's insistence on a six-man umpiring crew for the postseason. I'm trying to think of an instance in the past 30 years when someone said, "That was a great call. Good thing they had umpires standing in the outfield or they would have missed that one." I'm still thinking … nope. None. But I can think of one call (other than the Jeffrey Maier/Derek Jeter/Tony Tarasco fiasco) that was botched that would have been made correctly ...

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