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Umpire Goes to FAILtown
Published 4/23/2008 at The Sporting Blog
... 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 ...