I’m not exactly sure why it took so long for the announcers to realize, though. It was pretty obvious what had happened, even before the slow-mo. By the way: the slow-mo is itself part of the exquisite horror of this moment. I wasn’t joking about him probably having a worse Monday than you or I did, after all.
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He earned the base, shoulda let him keep it, rulebook bedamned.