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Eddings went to Wendelstadt's Umpiring School and they teach that you say "strike three" without an arm motion to indicate the out. Eddings made the play dead with his out motion. The Angel players saw it and walked off the field and so Paul followed suit. So, now we're reduced to having every strikeout end with a tag of the batter? That's BS.

I wanted Eddings to tell us what his motion was for a clean catch strikeout if that wasn't it. I bet he'd freeze up trying to think of one.

I noted a game this year when Eddings threw out the arm for third strike and no contact-- JUST LIKE LAST NIGHT. BUT, he didn't pump the out. Because the play wasn't dead in that game. So, we're all supposed to believe that he changed his style in just a few months after years of using these arm movements? Total Barbra Streisand.

AJP left the batter's box and was heading for the dugout. There wasn't even a real chance of Paul tagging him out. What AJP did was no different than what A-Rod did in Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS with his slap. He tried to put one over on the umps, too. Eddings choked when AJP ran to first and tried to pretend he didn't call the play dead with the out call.

You don't have to "VERBALLY, VOCALLY, [CALL] THE MAN OUT," if you call him out with your established out arm movement.

That first arm movement he made is consistent with his "swing strike, no contact" movement. The second fist pump is his established out call. He didn't just clench his fist. He rung him up. The play was dead. Eddings called the out and changed his mind after AJP ran to 1B. He screwed up and got conned by AJP.

It's like the Police Code, I guess, where no cop ever goes against another cop. A travesty. The Angels should replay all of that when Eddings umps in Game 3.