Instant Replay rule in Baseball anyone???
I agree with Bud Selig..
you can’t put toothpaste back into a tube
Bud Selig never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. He’s an idiot, but it’s sometimes hard to tell because he’s surrounded by even bigger idiots. Camouflage.
This makes sense. MLB will never reverse a judgement call from an umpire because the minute they do the entire fabric of the game will dinintegrate.
Somebody’s got to call the game. Fans have to accept the one bad call with the 1000 good ones.
This is another big-time stain on Major League baseball, just like the steroids.
Why do they continue to deny the obvious?
This is a tragedy if they don’t reverse this...
The perfect game that “wasn’t” will be remembered, which is even better.
Aw come on! We’ve only had 20 perfect games in the history of major league baseball. We need all the “perfect” games we can get in order to fill the seats during Barry’s “hopey/changey “jobless” economy.
umpires are better understood as an actual part of the game. there are good ones and not so good ones. they make errors, miss plays, and do damned stupid things sometimes. but they are part of the fabric of baseball, fallible judgment and all.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Challenges/Instant replay works for me. Three a game...if you lose the challenge, the team forfits one out next time at bat.
Actually, a really perfect baseball game would be when neither team scored any hits. That’s why it is such an exciting sport. Zzzzzzzzzz...
There are something like 2500 games a year and even the best umps miss calls. They are human. That means that there are at a minimum dozens of games where the outcome is decided by a blown call. Should we go back through those games to try to restore shut outs and give back some wins?
Gutless wonder.
The call is forever preserved on tape, let the baseball fans/ historians make the final judgment as to it's place in baseball history books....no doubt Galarraga's performance(and class afterward)will not be forgotten by MLB's purist's, nor should it be.
Congratulations Armando. Ernie would have been proud.