Posted on 06/03/2010 12:14:16 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bud Selig won't reverse an umpire's admitted blown call that cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game.
Selig says Major League Baseball will look at expanded replay and umpiring, but not the botched call Wednesday night.
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Selig gets a golden Clinton award.
It depends on what your definition of “Perfect” is.
I pity that Umpire... Word is on Facebook they are dozens of pages already hating on that guy.....Lucky he wasn’t a ref in South America for a Soccer Game...I hear they will beat/kill a ref for a bad call down there....
Umpires have a thankless job. They only get noticed when they screw up.
Ha! That pesky parsing.
When I write “parsing,” do I have to ping Parsy? I’d better err on the safe side!
This is so stupid. Good/bad officiating is a part of the process of obtaining a perfect game. A perfect game isn’t just the pitcher - he needs helps from the fielders and the umpires.
What can we learn from this? Umpiring is like baseball or life...an inexact science.
Everybody has shown class, Gallaraga, Leyland, and Joyce.
I’ll say it again, somebody’s got to call the game.
So make your choice and cross your fingers.
Umpires are a big reason the game moves so slow. The strike zone needs to be the way it was intended, that is, much larger. When I umped in a softball league, I told them right up front that if they could reach it with the bat I was liable to call it a strike. Nobody wants to see walks. Get up there and swing at the ball. Move the game along. We don’t need to be here all stinkin night.
Screw that :(
It would have hurt no one to reverse the bad call, and done correctly wouldn't have pressured other questionable calls in any way.
Selig blew an opportunity to make something wrong right, and struck out instead.
bull....the screw up was there for all to see again and again. The player was out and the game over. The correct call results in a perfect game.
I'm sorry it ever came to Football. It slows things down and breaks the flow of the game. It improved things about as much as free agency, which is not at all.
What if this same play had happenend in the 3rd inning?
I think the class of Gallarga (forgive my spelling) and Joyce far outweighs whatever Selig could do. Class cannot be bought nor redone by someone rewriting history. These two men are class acts alone, far beyond the playing field
But his teammates made some outstanding plays in support of him. It isn’t stupid either. The guy was out and an umpire’s mistake or incompetence doesn’t mitigate that. I understand that it is a game but so what?
I think the class of Gallarga (forgive my spelling) and Joyce far outweighs whatever Selig could do. Class cannot be bought nor redone by someone rewriting history. These two men are class acts alone, far beyond the playing field
As to the claim that video-appeals would slow down the proceedings -- Puh-lease -- this is baseball, and in any event the number of appeals could be limited. Baseball needs to grow up. Its umpires aren't infallible and they can use the help of technology. This isn't 1940 when we had to accept an umpire's call as gospel.
When team A does it’s job and stops team B short of the goal line and the ref makes a bad decision then the game isn’t about the players any longer. Replay puts the game back into the hands of the players. It also removes the failure of middle aged and often times out of shape men from the equation.
Challenges/Instant replay works for me. Three a game...if you lose the challenge, the team forfits one out next time at bat.
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