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Everybody loves a perfect ending. Everybody wants justice to be done and sports history to unfold before our eyes. When perfection is thwarted, people get angry — from the White House to the Michigan Statehouse to cable television to the digital universe. But the lesson of the blown call that ruined a Detroit pitcher's perfect game Wednesday is that you shouldn't — and can't — change the rules and overturn a result just because you don't like it.
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The Albert Pujols homerless show -- oh, and his Los Angeles Angels too -- hits the road for a pair of three-game series at ballparks with factors at polar extremes, Minnesota's Target Field and Texas' Rangers Ballpark. He has... more »
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