Put me on board for having Commissioner Bud Selig overturn this horrible call. I'm not normally a fan of selective intervention but baseball did overturn the call against George Brett and the Royals in the pine tar game. Precedent is there. That decision changed a result, wasn't the end of the world, and didn't lead baseball down the slippery slope to whatever is at the bottom of that slippery slope. This one would only change a box score and would have zero impact on the standings or anything else except that which only matters to baseball's purists. Perfect games just don't come along all that often ... except for this year. Took over a hundred years to record the first 18. Took two months, actually just three weeks since the first one came on Mother's Day, to record the last 3 this season. This error is fixable. Give the perfect game to Armando Galarraga because he earned it and fix the scoring on the last two batters. It's really not as big a deal to do as you'll make it out to be so don't wait months or years to do it. Get it done before his next start.
I think maybe the Sex and the City franchise may have finally run its course. I never really got it but that's another story. Most of the reviews I've seen are like this one, only not as funny.
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Quote of the Day
I just cost the kid a perfect game.
Jim Joyce, MLB Umpire
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "This should be a proud moment for baseball."
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Yeah, Selig should go ahead and fix this one. I normally would say no, but this one was down to the last two batters and it the game was otherwise unaffected. This sort of thing is why we should publicly give umpires errors.
That's the other thing about this that can be fixed, Dave. The umpire blew the call. It happens. He acknowledged it and feels horrible about it. He wants it fixed, too. His family has been threatened by nutjob fans. The last thing I want to hear is that the umpire's kid got hurt or sent home from school because of some whacko fan.
I loved Lindy West's review of SatC!
But still, I'm off with some friends to see it next week. Just for the escapism, not for the morality of the storyline :)
I'll undoubtedly see it someday, Fi, because I'll probably be looking for something to watch one night, probably late on a weekend. I didn't see every episode but I know the four main characters and Big. :)