@twoeightnine: I'm gonna say War. And bureaucracy. And going along to get along. Ralph was a very cool guy at West Point, being in long enough to make LTC must have changed him.
Bad call - check. Owned up - check. Sucks for the Tigers - check.
Now, my question: where the fuck is home plate umpire for this? He's looking up the line, too, and what if 1b umpire is out of position? Joyce looked, from where he was on the play, in a position where he'd have to listen for Donald's foot on the bag instead of seeing it. So, again, home plate might even have a better angle, so why didn't home plate overrule him?
The match resulted in several UEFA records being broken: most people offside at once since Eric Cantona's testimonial match, longest interval between yellow cards of any opponent of Athletic in Bilbao, and the most Basques together in one place without demands for a separate homeland ensuing.