re: Thoughts on the quality of the umpiring

What about the Florida runner who deliberately deviated from the base path to impede Freeman's throw to prevent a double play.

I don't know what "the book" says about that, but if he's not going to be called out for leaving the base path, then Slaughter's slide shouldn't have resulted in a run being removed from the scoreboard involving a runner who had no bearing on the play, and in which the slide didn't even prevent a double play.

If the rules disagree, they need to be revised.