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Major League Baseball faces two fundamental problems: weather and umpire accountability.
The weather is just part of the game, but umpiring has become an increasingly disturbing part of the game.
On Thursday the Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels cut short their workouts at Yankee Stadium because of biting rain and falling temperatures. Meteorologists held out hope that their American League Championship Series game Friday night would be played but warned that Game 2 on Saturday could very well be washed out.
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