Posted on 06/03/2010 8:49:00 AM PDT by ICAB9USA
NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball was still deciding Thursday morning whether to review the umpire's blown call that cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game.
Commissioner Bud Selig has the power to reverse umpire Jim Joyce's missed call that came with two outs in the ninth inning Wednesday night in Detroit. Joyce ruled Cleveland's Jason Donald safe, then admitted he got it wrong.
Selig would likely consult with his top advisers before making such a ruling. St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa says the call should be overturned.
Joyce was scheduled to be back at work Thursday afternoon, umpiring at home plate in the game between the Tigers and Indians.
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Last week the NBA rescinded a bad Tech foul against Celtic Kendrick Perkins that would have suspended him from game 6 semi-finals.
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All the batards who have screwed with Tiger's wife and family? Yes ... I know it wasn't exactly a game he was playing off the course ..... but .........
I hear you.
Yes it should be. I hope the fans are cool!
It was the hapless Cleveland Indians the second worse team in baseball, of course they have trouble hitting and look like t-ballers. Like I said, Cleveland averages over 7 strikeouts a game, the guy got 3.
If it is going to be considered one of the 20 best games ever pitched on the reversal of an umpiring call, it should be.
Actually, I think part of the beauty of any sport is its fallibility. As long as the umpire is honest and tried his best, that is part of the game.
Following the logic of replay, if we don’t like it, we should just use computers for every call, remove the umps completely. I can’t think of any technological reason not too, technology is capable with a little tweaking. I personally would hate not being able to yell at the umps, who of course are blind as a bat!
I don’t think the runner would be looking at the catch, would he?
Exactly. Selig is a big-time leftist schmuck, and he's just likely to do it, because like all leftists, he has no respect for law or precedent, he merely wants to arrive at a feel-good outcome. And just like other leftists, he loves governing from the top down.
First, there is absolutely no precedent for reversing an umpire or umpiring crew's pure judgment call; the only calls that are possibly subject to reversal after the game is completed involve misapplications of the rules, and then only when the aggrieved team announces it is playing the game under protest at the point in the game when the controversy occurs.
Most importantly, the fact is that the outcome of the game was not affected at all by the bad call, unlike many other bad umpiring calls in the past. The score, as the game played out, was still 3-0 Detroit regardless of the call.
And if Selig reverses the play on the field, what else will this lead to? (What a hypocrite: he never did reverse any of Barry Bonds' steroid-aided home runs, nor any Giants' wins obtained as a result of them, did he?)
With all the bad officiating decisions that have take place in all competitive team sports over the years, this one ranks near the bottom of the list in terms of the consequences, because the the team that deserved to win did. There are always some lousy calls, because officials are human. This one is minuscule in importance because unlike many others I could name, it had absolutely no effect on which team won and which team lost, which should be the bottom line.
By overblowing this issue, the sports MSM, which is just as dumb and just as far left as the rest of the media, is demonstrating that it has little concept of what the ethic of competitive team sports should be about. They seem more concerned about making individual participants look good or bad than who won and who lost.
If you saw the play he was out on a routine play. Not even close. Last out of a perfect game. Come on a bad call? No way.
Come on this guy decided there were too many perfect games going on and did this knowing he was safe. arrogant ump had had enough of ‘unimpressive pitches like Braden and Galarraga tarnishing the legacy of the perfect game’.
Fire him after he is horse whipped.
ML/NJ
I disagree. Should every controversial or close call be replayed? No way. These games are much too long as they are, on average.
The better approach would be to get generally better umpiring. One idea would be a grading system where the lowest graded umpires would be returned to the minors at the end of the year and the top graded high minor league umpires promoted to fill their places.
I do agree with you that the "Cards call" in 1985 was one of the most significant bad calls in baseball history, in terms of the consequences of who won and who lost. In last night's controversy, that wasn't even an issue because the final score would still be the same regardless of the call.
Be careful of what you wish for. It's dangerous for any organization, be it a government or a professional sport, to put anyone in a god-like position, yet alone some leftist like Obama or Selig, respectively. The result is inevitably tyranny and lack of fairness or justice!
It's not a matter of wishing for it. It's been a fact of baseball since 1920, when Kenesaw Mountain Landis demanded, and was granted, unlimited authority over all aspects of organized baseball as a condition of accepting the job of commissioner.
He stayed in the job for 24 years, and nobody has ever redefined the office. Today's commissioner has the same powers the office has held for 90+ years.
Puh-leeze, with all the games (each of 30 MLB teams has a 162 games schedule) and calls made in them, I can assure you there were plenty that were just as bad or worse, also worse in terms of the consequences. This was a reasonably close play, one that a good umpire may still get wrong perhaps 2% of the time. What they generally do at first base is to look for the runner's foot to hit the bag while at the same time listening for the ball to hit the fielder's glove. Rarely, even a good umpire will fail to hear that thump sound of the ball hitting the glove because of extraneous sounds in the environment. As I said, this one did not alter the final score, so the sports MSM is making a mountain out of molehill.
They gave Landis a lot of power in 1920, yes, but they knew that Landis, having been an honest federal judge (at least in so far as we know) could be entrusted to exercise his power judiciously. He wasn't foolish enough to alter the outcome of games played on the field. First of all, that was the power of the league presidents (whose offices have been abolished since Selig rose to power). Even so, games were reversed only in those very rare instances where there were misapplications of the rules by the umpires, not simply disputed judgements of balls or strikes, fair or foul, safe or out, and only when the aggrieved team announced it was playing under protest and filed a timely protest. This incident in Detroit last night was not a misapplication of the rules, merely an umpire's judgment call.
To compare Landis with Selig is like comparing a Mercedes with a Yugo. It's not quite as dangerous to hand a job with a lot of power to a seemingly decent man retiring from a federal judgeship than it is to hand the same job to a leftist nitwit who grew up in a car dealership (and who gives political contributions to the likes of Christopher Dodd). It would be reasonable for Landis to have a had lot more respect for the rule of law and precedent than Selig does.
Sure, there have been and are plenty of bad calls made routinely (ignoring ball and strike calls), but usually it takes a slow motion video to demonstrate that the call was bad; or a timely still photo.
On close plays at first base there are two people who really know whether the runner was safe or out. In this case one of them was the pitcher. I'm surprised that he didn't go ballistic. The other was the runner. Take a look at the runner's face. Let me know if you've EVER seen a look like that on a guy's face who was called safe on a close play where he knew he was out.
ML/NJ
Then it's a good thing nobody compared the two.
It's not quite as dangerous to hand a job with a lot of power to a seemingly decent man retiring from a federal judgeship than it is to hand the same job to a leftist nitwit who grew up in a car dealership (and who gives political contributions to the likes of Christopher Dodd).
That's fine, but can you please tell me who changed the powers of the office of the commissioner and when it happened? I don't recall it.
As far as I know, the baseball commissioner has the same powers he had 90+ years ago. You can think it should be different for Selig than Landis, but wishing it doesn't make it so.
It happens everyday. The blown call and the hit are already in the books. I'm only suggesting that the perfect pitched game part be corrected.
There were a couple people (not necessarily any of you) on this thread who have suggested that, no matter what happens (with Selig), this guy will have pitched the greatest one hitter ever.
Not so fast, let's not forget 'The Kitten', Harvey Haddix and his perfect 12 innings.
;-)
That was a gem.
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The Greatest Game Ever Pitched
........ oh what a night that was back in '59.
bottom line? BS!!!!
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