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October 9, 2010  Playoff Prospectus  The Mystery of the Inside
Pitch  by Colin Wyers  Regardless of what team they follow, what
league they favor, baseball fans seem to be united by one common
cause: they all seem to think that umpires don’t know how to
call balls and strikes. That would be problematic, of course,
seeing as how often umpires are called upon to do that and how
important it is to the game of baseball.  The latest cause for
outrage was a pitch Lance Berkman took for a ball, which he
would then follow up with a double on Thursday night in the
Yankees' victory over the Twins in Game Two of the American
League Division Series. Twins manager Ron Gardenhire got thrown
out of the game for arguing the call of that pitch. And throwing
fuel on the fire is TBS’