Whilst masticating on , Allan Jenoff (1:250/710)
wrote to Terry May:
AJ> Tarasco misjudged the ball and that's why he would have missed it.  He 
AJ> needed to jump to catch it and he clearly wasn't getting ready to jump. 
Had
Tarasco misjudged nothing, except thinking that he'd actually be able to 
catch a routine fly ball in Yankee Stadium without the interference of a 
rugrat.   
AJ> he really been positioned to catch the ball, he would have knocked the 
AJ> kid's glove with his own and the interference would have been obvious.  
Why should he jump for a ball he didn't have to jump to catch?  
AJ> Jeter should have been out but a bad defensive play by Tarasco 
AJ> saved him, the kid just complicated the matter.  The way I see, 
AJ> Jeter had an easy double and might even have made it to third.
Jeter had a routine out, and would have only made it back to the dugout.
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