Another Bad Call

[Al]

Yesterday, at the end of the Indians vs. Yankees game, the plate unpire made
a clearly bad call. The Indians were behind a run with two men on and 2
outs in the top of the ninth. DeRosa was at bat. He worked the count to 3
& 2. The next pitch was close but most people, including myself, thought it
was a ball. I saw it on TV. DeRosa seemed dumbfounded and the annoucer was
upset by the call. It was the same pitch the umpire called a ball a couple
pitches ago. This ended the game and the Indians lost on a home town call
for the Yankees.
How often have we seen a game decided by a bad call by an official. I'm not
saying they're all crooked; some of these are difficult decisions. But
isn't it frustrating for the fans and players to lose a game on the wrong
call when there is technology, if used, that could avoid this fiasco. The
means to accurately determine balls and strikes electronically is available.
They even use it on TV broadcasts of games when they immediately show us why
a pitch is a ball or strike. Yet, MLB has apparently refused this solution
and prefers to have games decided on bad decisions. This is indeed
frustrating and is a reason to stop buying tickets to games. In
professional sports, the officials can easily affect the outcome by bad (and
even crooked) calls. It will continue until the fans make it too costly to
do so.
Al