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Originally Posted by Ragnar
The bottom line is, he should never have called the play safe. He was close enough that it is never called safe. Umps give even more room on a consistant basis. It has to be called one way or the other consistantly.
Opinions of the neighborhood rule in general are meaningless in this case. That is for another thread. What matters is what is accepted as the general rule. One way or the other.
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My argument is that what Aybar did was so far off from what the umpires normally call an out that it can't realistically be called the same way. Seriously, if anyone can find me a couple of cases where the shortstop was that far away from the bag under that little pressure and the batter was still called out, I'll shut up about it. My opinion about the "neighborhood rule" doesn't come into play here, except to say that this falls outside it.