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Bob Collins

The dumbest tradition in sports

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If there is any justice in the world, the fans of the Chicago Cubs will never experience winning a pennant nor World Series. Never!

The fools created the worst "tradition" in the history of baseball and a play yesterday highlighted it.

An older gentleman makes a great catch on a homerun by Mark Reynolds of the Milwaukee Brewers.

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MLB video grab.

Having gone to all of that trouble, and nearly falling out of Wrigley Field, he throws the ball back.

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But Mike Pullin, of Rochelle, Illinois, didn't throw the real ball back. He had one ready to go; one his dog played with. He threw that one back instead.

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