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OT - are baseball umpires biased towards high-status pitchers
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(09-21-2017 11:07 AM)ChicagoOwl (BS 07) Wrote:  apparently so:
http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10....2014.1967

Two influences converging:
- The general tendency of officials in all sports to give borderline calls in favor star players, and
- The specific fact in baseball that favoring the pitcher makes the game shorter.
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"Mr. Aaron will let you know when it's a strike."
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