Armando Galarraga receives a Corvette consolation prize

Yahoo ^ | 06/03/2010

[Borges]

Bob Barker and Rod Roddy couldn't have planned it better themselves.

In the wake of Armando Galarraga's(notes) perfect-game-that-wasn't, Chevrolet and the Detroit Tigers rightly decided that the jilted pitcher deserved a grand gift anyway.

So a new Corvette was driven behind home plate prior to Thursday's game with the Cleveland Indians and presented to the man who has been nothing but class in the face of Wednesday's disappointing and unjust finish.

[Borges]

[Dacula]

Class and not an a$$ like the other 86% of the league

[jwparkerjr]

You know, in a way this is a much bigger deal for him than one more perfect game, along with over two dozen others, would have been. He gets the best of all worlds, a perfect game, his 15-minutes of fame AND a new Corvette. Boy talk about future sports trivia questions!

[JennysCool]

Even better, the feelgood moments didn't end once Galarraga was handed the keys to his shiny new whip. With Jim Joyce scheduled to work home plate for the day, Galarraga then carried the lineup to the tearful ump and shook his hand. Joyce remained emotional and responded with a thankful pat to Galarraga's arm.

This has become a great sports story -- far greater than if Gallaraga had got the perfecto, in fact.

[Faith]

It’s wonderful to see classy behavior in big time sports-—a rare but welcome event. God bless both of these fellas.

[SJSAMPLE]

Yep.
We’ll be talking about this a lot longer and a lot more (and better) lessons have been learned.

[a fool in paradise]

Bad news is that it is made by Government Motors.

Worse news would've been for them to give him a "new" house in Detroit.

[Dexter Morgan]

Good thing this didn’t happen in the NFL or NBA. The ump probably would have been shot by the player, ala honor killing.

[chimera]

Some real sportsman there, respect for the players and officials, respect for the game and its traditions. I’ll take guys like these any day over the inflated ego, inflated salary show-time types.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Yep...great sports stories of all time. Lots of life lessons to be learned here.

[Carley]

Must you be the skunk at the picnic?

[Little Pig]

I’m with you on that. Not a big baseball geek, but to me the way this has ended is much more satisfying than becoming just another stat. Everyone knows he had the perfect game, he gets way more notoriety (and probably a little more leverage at the bargaining tabe next season), a lot of respect, and oh by the way a freebie $80,000 car. If nothing else, he’s got a lot of material for a license plate when he registers it. And yeah, this ought to be worth more than a few question in the sports trivia world.

[Dacula]

Always got to be one in the crowd to be a t*rd.

YOU ARE IT!

[UCANSEE2]

Given a choice, which would you rather have? The house or the New Corvette?

[NeilGus]

And I bet this guy never gets a bad call again (close pitches will go his way). Not only from this ump but from all others.

[Terpin]

Any ideas as to what his plates should read? Maybe BADCALL?

[Terpin]

Any ideas as to what his plates should read? Maybe BADCALL?

[jwparkerjr]

re: a few questions in the sports trivia world

Q: Over 20,000 fans saw Armando Galarraga pitch a perfect game, one of less than three-dozen in all of baseball history, only to have it snatched away on the third out of the last inning by a bad call from the ump. Name them. And for your bonus points, where were they born?

[Ro_Thunder]

When Ed Hockley blew an obvious call in a San Diego v Denver (costing the Chargers the game, basically) game a few years ago, it was asked why it wasn’t reviewed, and the reply was it wasn’t a reviewable call.

Sure, people called for him to be fired - but Ed still calls games, and has called San Diego games even.

[Doogle]

nice