Looks like the commissioner of baseball is digging in on overturning Wednesday's infamous call. From ESPN:
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig said he would not reverse the call, but would examine expanding instant replay in baseball.
Why not reverse the call? Pitcher Armando Galarraga's name deserves a place alongside Catfish Hunter, Don Larsen, and Sandy Koufax. No one disputes that. Bud wouldn't be giving him anything. He earned it. Umpire Jim Joyce and his family shouldn't have his honest mistake haunt them the rest of their lives. Let's not hear that "integrity of the game" crap. There's no integrity, no sanctity, no purity to be preserved here. If the purists had their way, players would still leave their gloves in the field, there would be no designated hitter, no divisional playoffs, no interleague play, no night baseball. Why give in to those twits, Bud? You're not one of them. It's their lot in life to complain about everything so let them complain. The only thing being preserved here is injustice. Fixable injustice. Baseball gains nothing by letting it stand. Nothing. Don't dig in, Bud. Dig out.
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Quote of the Day
I'm glad Galarraga behaved with the class of five British butlers, shaking off the most egregious baseball call of the 21st Century by saying, "Nobody's perfect."
Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "Baseball commissioner Bud Selig responded to the Armando Galarraga/Jim Joyce situation. Sort of. It took him 18 hours to issue a statement that said little. Instead his decision to not reverse the call came out through “anonymous source with knowledge of the situation.” Why Selig couldn’t do this himself is beyond me."
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I agree 100%. Baseball is a game for entertainment. It is not a religion or the law or some immortal truth. e pitched a perfect game and deserves to be recognized for it. Selig is an idiot if he doesn't correct the ending.
If I had seen Joe Posnanski's lovely article, I think I would have just linked to it and done something else this morning.
http://joeposnanski.si.com/2010/06/02/the-lesson-of-jim-joyce/
I still want Selig to correct this mistake even though there are very special life lessons in the reactions of everyone involved.