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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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.
They already use it for foul vs home run balls and it hasn’t been a big deal. Only the umpires can call for it so it isn’t likely to be overused.
As for Gallaraga, he’s assured his place in the history books.
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...
In this case it wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the game so I don’t see why not.
I agree.
You also get into looking at the other calls that may have been called in foavor of getting that no-hitter to the 9th.
I’m sure Obama and Holder will sue, though.
See? We don’t disagree on everything! ;-}.
Why not in this case? it would have been the game ending call, so it wouldn’t cause any odd replay the game issues. When George Brett’s pine tar out was reversed, they replayed the end of the game on a different day!
The perfect game that “wasn’t” will be remembered, which is even better.
Yes, people will remember this one.
Never was much of a baseball fan. But your right He will be remembered
Exactly! Ironically, his "(im)perfect game" has instantly become the most famous in baseball history, and likely will remain so for generations.
Umpires suck this year.
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.
I guess not..
most of our disagreements are on what is good and if evil actully exists.
but I am glad we agree on something
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.
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