Re: _Terry May Alan Hass_, JEFF TENNEY wrote to ALL  on 12 Oct 96:
 JT> These two guys are idoits.
Thank you.  That tells me right away what level of maturity I'm dealing with.
 JT> If Albert Belle spit on anyone before their series with Baltimore they
 JT> would have been crying for his head. What Alamor did was indefensable.
I agree on both counts.  Does that make me an idiot?
 JT> The umpire did blow the call it should have been a ground rule double it
 JT> was not going over but it was also not going to be caught.
How do you figure?  The ball was clearly headed for Tarasco's glove.  Why do 
you think he didn't jump?  Even without jumping there's only a about a foot 
between his glove and the top of the wall.  You're telling me he wouldn't 
jump for a ball just a few inches over his glove?
 JT> If I remember correctly this same thing happened in Baltimore more than
 JT> once this year and no one complained. Grow up guys, calls are blown all
 JT> the time.
Does that make them right?  This was an easy call to make, and Garcia blew 
it, just like he blew the easy play at 1B in Game 5.
 JT> Maybe Baltimore players should be allowed to spit on umpires when the
 JT> feel a call is blown and if the call was right and the player complained
 JT> the player would be suspend for the season. Everyone one is happy this
 JT> way.
I don't know what you're talking about.  I'm not a Baltimore fan and I never 
once defended Alomar in any way.  In fact, I argued that he should have been 
suspended for a long longer than five days, and probably for the playoffs.
The call by Garcia pissed me off because as a MLB fan, I don't like to see a 
playoff game decided by a fan and an umpire.  I'm neither an Orioles nor a 
Yankees fan.
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