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Found October 10, 2009 on Ravens Insider:
PLAYERS: Joe Mauer
TEAMS: Minnesota Twins

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I'll have to throw a shout out to DJ for pointing out that the terrible foul call on Joe Mauer's ground-rule double last night happened on the 13th anniversary of the Jeffrey Maier incident at Yankee Stadium. Umpire Phil Cuzzi whiffed on Mauer's soft fly ball, which fell about a foot inside the foul line in left field and bounced out of play. It should have been a leadoff double, and Major League Baseball should extend the replay system to fix something that egregious, but it wouldn't have been challenged because the play wasn't visible from the Twins dugout. It is rather curious that the Yankees seem to have this kind of thing happen in their favor more than other teams, but it's probably just because they're in the postseason a lot more than any other team. So $200 million buys you a winning team and the occasional bonus call. Who knows whether the Twins would have scored and won the game. Mauer ended up hitting a single and the Twins l...
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