The most vacuous postgame argument from last night’s Game 3 of the World Series might also be the most common — that “no umpire’s call should decide a World Series game.”
Why not? What if an umpire’s call is required on a play that decides the game? Who should make it? Should we, oh, I don’t know, call Pee-Wee Herman on the phone and say, hey, Pee-Wee, whaddya think? Safe or out?
What about a called third strike with two out in the bottom of the ninth? Isn’t that an umpire’s call also deciding a WS game? Isn’t that pretty much the same thing?
I have no stake in this — don’t care which team wins. As I read the rule, umpires Dana Demuth and Jim Joyce got the call absolutely right. Good for them.
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Joe Bissen is a Caledonia, Minnesota, native and former golf letter-winner at Winona State University. He is a retired sports copy editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer Press and former sports editor of the Duluth News-Tribune. His writing has appeared in Minnesota Golfer and Mpls.St.Paul magazines. He lives in South St. Paul, MN. Joe's award-winning first book, "Fore! Gone. Minnesota's Lost Golf Courses 1897-1999," was released in December 2013, and a follow-up, "More! Gone. Minnesota's Lost Golf Courses, Part II" was released in July 2020. The books are most readily available online at Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble (bn.com). He continues to write about lost courses on this website and has uncovered more than 245 of them.
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