Stubborn asshole Bud Selig won't give that pitcher his perfect game.. HE WAS OUT! See this site! >>
 

http://firejimjoyce.com/

that site is funny.. but so true..

Selig will not reverse umpire’s blown call

NEW YORK (AP)—Commissioner Bud Selig won’t reverse an umpire’s admitted blown call that cost Armando Galarraga(notes) 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.

A baseball official familiar with the decision confirmed to The Associated Press that the call was not being reversed. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because that element was not included in Selig’s statement.

Joyce said he erred on what would’ve been the final out in Detroit, where the Tigers beat Cleveland 3-0. The umpire personally apologized to Galarraga and hugged him after the game, then took the field at Comerica Park on Thursday in tears.

Detroit general manager Dave Dombrowski had said the team wouldn’t ask MLB to overturn the call. The mistake denied Galarraga the 21st perfect game in history, and the first for the Tigers.

Joyce ruled Cleveland’s Jason Donald(notes) safe at first base, but later said he got it wrong. Even in the sports world, where bad calls are part of the mix, this one reached way beyond the lines: the perfect game that wasn’t.

Galarraga, who was barely known outside of Detroit before this week, and Joyce, whose career had flourished in relative anonymity, remained trending topics on Twitter more than 12 hours after the game ended. At least one anti-Joyce Facebook page popped up and firejimjoyce.com was launched.

From Derek Jeter(notes) to casual fans, opinions poured in.

“I was thinking if the umpire says he made a mistake on replay, I’d call it a no-hitter, perfect game. Just scratch it,” St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said. “If I was Mr. Selig, in the best interest of the game. The guy got it and I’d give him his perfect game. But here again, I should just shut my mouth.”


the team gave the guy a corvette ..lol

Theres worse things in life. Everyone get over it. The guys a fucking millionaire playing baseball in our country.

The kid got more glory out of the whole situation than if the perfect game happened as normal and went into the record books, and it's not like he and everyone else on the planet doesn't understand he did in reality pitch a perfect game.

The whole "omg it must have the human element" bs will hopefully die though and they'll finally institute an instant replay/challenge system. Such a system works perfectly fine in football and tennis, why not baseball? The sport is already mostly boring as fuck, what's another couple minutes to make sure correct calls are made?

A pitcher sure throws a ball well. He has the precision of a grenadier.

The sport is already mostly boring as fuck, what's another couple minutes to make sure correct calls are made?[/QUOTE]
totally correct on that one, it's like watching grass grow:winkwink:

totally correct on that one, it's like watching grass grow:winkwink:[/QUOTE]

I agree; and, I think if was a perfect game. IMO, the Commissioner needs to do the "right" thing, not the political or "cover his ass" thing.

There have been 20 perfect games in baseball, ever. His should be #21 and a part of history.

Well, I thought some contrite words, a man hug, and a governor's resolution was enough... I guess not. But Bud Selig ain't budging