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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- At the top of the food chain, a major league umpire makes upward of $300,000 to work six months a year. Don't choke on that, because it gets worse.
Tim McClelland is at the top of the food chain.
Choke on that.
Tim McClelland is the guy who umpired third base Tuesday night in the American League Championship Series. He mistakenly determined that the Yankees' Nick Swisher had left third base too soon when scoring on Johnny Damon's fly ball in the fourth -- then couldn't go one whole inning before making a worse call in the fifth. That's when he called New York's Robinson Cano safe at third after Angels catcher Mike Napoli tagged him while Cano stood about a foot from the bag -- and no more than five feet from McClelland.
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