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Sports stories are often closers on the nightly newscasts but, because of legal hassles over copyright clearances, the networks often forego their entitlement to post the video online under the law's fair use provision. So it was gratifying to see that Ron Claiborne's report on the baseball playoffs survived as videostream on ABC's Website. He showed us three blown calls from Tuesday's game between the New York Yankees and the Angels of Anaheim. "A lot of baseball fans are clamoring--not to Kill the Ump as in days of yore--but for instant replay.
Not this baseball fan. Calling baserunner Steve Nick Swisher out incorrectly at third was the fair thing to do after calling him safe incorrectly at second in the same inning. In this instance, two wrongs really did make a right. Well done, ump.
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