Mike Scioscia, the manager of the Angels, accepted the controversial call in the White Sox/Angels series with class - something to the effect of "it should not have come to that in the ninth inning. We should have played better". Then the Angels fans could have been a lot worse last night to the umpire Doug Eddings. As this article says he would have received far worse treatment in Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park.
Over the course of my analyst and negotiation careers I have been called several things. At Gartner we used to have an expression -" if you are not annoying at least a few vendors. your analysis is probably too soft". And Gartner had a process for "auditing" when vendors complained of poor analysis just like MLB is likely reviewing Doug's call.
It would be nice though if more vendor CEOs were like Mike. If you are executing well, one bad call or report should not change course much...
