Why is this guy still in business?
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It would have been only the 21st perfect game in baseball’s 135 year history. It would have been the third perfect game of the year. But Armando Galarraga’s perfect game will be none of these.
Commissioner Bud Selig won’t reverse an umpire’s admitted blown call that cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game.
Selig said Thursday that Major League Baseball will look at expanded replay and umpiring, but didn’t specifically address umpire Jim Joyce’s botched call Wednesday night.
Why not? It would not be the first time that an umpire’s call has been overruled by a commissioner of baseball.
I haven’t yet heard Selig’s justification for not giving Galarraga the perfect game he pitched that night. When he does, there better not be anything about preserving the game’s integrity. Ask Roger Maris about the game’s integrity. The decision to place an asterisk after his 61 home run season (now removed) was a disgrace.
In a game plagued by drug scandals and steroid use, preserving the game’s integrity would seem to be best served by not denying a man the honor he deserves.
Bud Selig. Dick.
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I think it is the ‘most perfect game’ in baseball history by the absolutely perfect way that it was handled by Galarraga. The umpire called it the way he saw it during the game. Things happen so quickly in baseball and the ‘game of inches’ can become a game of centimeters and milliseconds. He made the call to the best of his ability and the Galarraga handled it better than anyone can be expected to. He has become, in my mind, one of the greatest pitchers in the game.
I cannot understand Selig on this one. The umpire admits to how badly he missed the call, quote: “I kick the shit out of this one” + “I feel awful, I took away the perfect game from this kid who played his ass off, the whole game”. Galarraga is the classiest athlete we’ve seen in decades, so why can’t Selig clean up his act and make this right. I loved what the governor did after the game, she made a great proclamation giving Galarraga his perfect game. Right on!!! Damn, Selig is useless.
Mario, I understand the outrage. I have been upset since 1961 at what Ford Frick did in regard to Maris. In my new book Roger Maris: Baseball’s Relucant Hero we attack his decision to degrade Maris’s accomplishment–although I’d like to point out that there was no asterisk placed in the record book but something worse: Babe Ruth’s name remained along with Maris’s (the only category that had the record for 154 games and 162 games)until Fay Vincent got rid of Ruth’s name in 1991. Of course, Maris’s name was erased by steroid users in 1998. Will Bud Selig reinstate Maris as the single-season record holder and Aaron as the career homer leader and stop Alex Rodriguez’s undeserved march to the top? Nah. I despise Bud Selig but as much as I would have liked him to grant the perfect game and rationalized it my head, I agree with him that he can’t, or shouldn’t, do it. If he did, then any commissioner can go back into time and change whatever they want, right or wrong, including bad calls in every World Series. This pitching performance will be mentioned any time a perfect game is mentioned so the pitcher will be famous and the umpire infamous. Danny Peary
I agree Mario. What a disappointment not only for this kid, but Detroit as a whole. As an area resident it is doubly painful to witness.
This was heartbreaking. I felt for the kid. I was very impressed with how Galarraga handled himself during post-game interviews.
Hey, I heard he received a Corvette as consolation. Nice.
I think it is the ‘most perfect game’ in baseball history by the absolutely perfect way that it was handled by Galarraga. The umpire called it the way he saw it during the game. Things happen so quickly in baseball and the ‘game of inches’ can become a game of centimeters and milliseconds. He made the call to the best of his ability and the Galarraga handled it better than anyone can be expected to. He has become, in my mind, one of the greatest pitchers in the game.
I cannot understand Selig on this one. The umpire admits to how badly he missed the call, quote: “I kick the shit out of this one” + “I feel awful, I took away the perfect game from this kid who played his ass off, the whole game”. Galarraga is the classiest athlete we’ve seen in decades, so why can’t Selig clean up his act and make this right. I loved what the governor did after the game, she made a great proclamation giving Galarraga his perfect game. Right on!!! Damn, Selig is useless.
Mario, I understand the outrage. I have been upset since 1961 at what Ford Frick did in regard to Maris. In my new book Roger Maris: Baseball’s Relucant Hero we attack his decision to degrade Maris’s accomplishment–although I’d like to point out that there was no asterisk placed in the record book but something worse: Babe Ruth’s name remained along with Maris’s (the only category that had the record for 154 games and 162 games)until Fay Vincent got rid of Ruth’s name in 1991. Of course, Maris’s name was erased by steroid users in 1998. Will Bud Selig reinstate Maris as the single-season record holder and Aaron as the career homer leader and stop Alex Rodriguez’s undeserved march to the top? Nah. I despise Bud Selig but as much as I would have liked him to grant the perfect game and rationalized it my head, I agree with him that he can’t, or shouldn’t, do it. If he did, then any commissioner can go back into time and change whatever they want, right or wrong, including bad calls in every World Series. This pitching performance will be mentioned any time a perfect game is mentioned so the pitcher will be famous and the umpire infamous. Danny Peary
Thank you for the info, Danny. Let’s plug your book. Give us a link to Amazon or anywhere else we might pick it up.