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Umpire Goes to FAILtown

I hate baseball with the passion of a smoldering blast furnace, but I'm doing this baseball post because in all of its forms I praise ineptitude and the art of making a huge mistake in front of thousands of people. Plus Mottram's sleepy, I just chugged a full cup of coffee for the evening shift, and as a youth league umpire I once called a ball three feet foul "fair" in order to enrage a parent I hated.

I don't think animosity was the reason for this call from last night's Nationals/Braves game--no, you only get results like this from complete and total ineptitude of an almost brilliant nature.

The runner's not five feet past the bag--he's in Gwinnett County when he's called out, so far has he traveled past the play. The only possible thing he could be telling Bobby Cox is "I owe you a drink. Maybe ten of them. Because I just completely blew that call, and you and I both know it. In Japan, my only option would be to kill myself, so massive is the shame of what I just did." 

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