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As TVs Improve, So Does Umpiring

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Keep up with the latest news on The Times's baseball blog. Shannon said that when he began working in baseball in the 1950s, umpires routinely operated on ...

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You can put all the cameras you want on the field, your still going to get some missed calls. I don't think most umpires miss calls on purpose, just to get an out or because of some unwritten rule about the ball getting there first. You get in position, you see the play and call it. If it is a banger and the ball is there and the tag is there, unless I see something unusual, I have an out. I always call what I see.