Gaslamp Ball Proclamation: Bud Selig should posthumously award Armando Galarraga his perfect game
by Dex on Jun 3, 2010 3:52 PM PDT
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After reflecting upon Armando Galarraga's blown perfect game, Gaslamp Ball has decided that Bud Selig in fact should enact his Pope-like powers in representing the Baseball Gods and reverse Umpire Jim Joyce's ridiculous call, but only after all of the parties involved (Jim Joyce, Bud Selig, Jason Donald, and the entire Detroit Tigers infield) have been dead 25 years.
The requirement of death is only to add another layer of strangeness to this already curious incident.
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OK then.
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by Zach (maestro876) on Jun 3, 2010 3:53 PM PDT reply actions
How deep does the rabbit-hole go?
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it kind of reminds me of that movie "You've got mail"...I'm Tom Hanks he's Meg Ryan -- Padres prospect Matt Antonelli on sdsuaztec4
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Jun 3, 2010 3:57 PM PDT reply actions
Curiouser and curiouser
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Bolts From The Blue "There’s a gleam men. Let’s go get the gleam! Focus and Finish!!! One play at a time!!! Let's Go!!!"
it kind of reminds me of that movie "You've got mail"...I'm Tom Hanks he's Meg Ryan -- Padres prospect Matt Antonelli on sdsuaztec4
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Jun 4, 2010 6:12 AM PDT up reply actions
You're crazy
I say 25 years after their grandchildren are dead.
No, I don't think you're an idiot. Please don't go trying to prove me wrong about that.
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As long as death is involved
I’m ok with it.
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This!
This season I will expect the worst but I will be prepared for 'worser'.
by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jun 4, 2010 12:59 AM PDT up reply actions
New stat
Galarraga is now the only pitcher to have thrown a Shit-kicked Perfect Game. These babies are going to be rare because Jim Joyce is the only one who can award them.
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by Axion on Jun 3, 2010 4:04 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Dude
Don’t talk about posthumously awarding crap to people still alive
that’s bad karma
And while i really do want Selig to award him a perfect game, both Joyce and Galarraga come out of this smelling like a rose
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Nooooo don't do it!
If Selig really awards him a perfect game then I want to finish game 163 and after we win I want to replay the 2007 playoffs.
"If guys wanna complain about playing here they better check themselves and leave" - Nick Hundley.
by Natrone Bomb on Jun 3, 2010 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Well we'll also have to get together all the old teams too
Marcus Giles, Morgan Ensberg, Milton Bradley, Michael Barrett come back we all need you!
And
Mike Cameron, Khalil Greene, Brady Clark, Geoff Blum, Josh Bard, Brian Giles, Termel Sledge, Jason Lane, Oscar Robles, Brian Myrow, Kevin Kouzmanoff, Doug Brocail and, of course, Jake Peavy and Trevor Hoffman.
It’s crazy that the game was actually played with expanded rosters. Chase Headley played in that game before he was even the Savior.
Anybody remember that Yorvit his a HR in that game or that Ramon Ortiz was the pitcher of record for the Rockies? I didn’t.
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by elw89 on Jun 3, 2010 4:42 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
how bad was the call?
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just as bad as a bazillion other calls
that happen every day in baseball
Mountain West Connection ::Above the Rest::
Bolts From The Blue "There’s a gleam men. Let’s go get the gleam! Focus and Finish!!! One play at a time!!! Let's Go!!!"
it kind of reminds me of that movie "You've got mail"...I'm Tom Hanks he's Meg Ryan -- Padres prospect Matt Antonelli on sdsuaztec4
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Jun 3, 2010 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Remember back in high school,
When you got popped for minor consumption, and your parents had the pastor over for coffee and cards, and you had to use your one phone call to ask your Dad, who had just been laid off, and whose car you had recently run into a parked ambulance, to come post your bail?
Worse than that call.
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by Boilermaker19 on Jun 3, 2010 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
wow,
bad call.
"There are two great tragedies in life: One is not getting what one wants; the other is getting it."
"I like to consider the padres' team as a microcosm, or symbolic representation of my daily endeavor towards inner salvation." — Mysterious Cloaked Padre Fan
Can you imagine if that happened to the Padres on the cusp of their first no hitter/perfect game?
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There would be blood.
"This team looks dangerous, like a convict with a temper, nothing to lose and a switch blade." -jbox
As bad as Jim Joyce flubbed up that call,
and how his major screw-up will forever haunt him as long as he refs the game of baseball, Bud Selig deserves some of the blame that has gone Joyce’s way. Had there been instant replay been installed as part the game, his call would be overturned in less than a minute, and Galarraga would have his Perfect Game. But no, Selig keeps sticking to his “human element” mantra, almost refusing to move this classic game into the 21st century of reviewing controversial calls. Camera are shooting the games in Hi-Def, and with its sharper picture quality, the league can be able to review plays, like that ground-out-turned infield hit yesterday. Hell, this should have been done years ago (see the 10th inning debacle of game 163 in 2007), but the commissioner looked the other way. If Joyce is to blame for making a boneheaded call that robbed Galarraga of a Perfect Game, then Selig should bear some of it, when he was given a chance to implement the technology that would have overturned the first base umpire.
by Jonathan Holmes on Jun 3, 2010 11:18 PM PDT reply actions
they are already reviewing home runs
college football reviews every play on the fly
It can easily be done from MLB broadcasting headquarters where they get all the feeds of every game.
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a parallel question
What about games that aren’t televised? Like the Padres game on Wednesday? I guess there are still cameras there from the visiting team. But perhaps they are unwilling to implement replay if they don’t have a certain number of cameras guarenteed at every game?
And if there are cameras filming Wednesday’s Padres game, why can’t I watch it on TV??? The replay of AGon’s salami seem to have mets announcers, but I wouldn’t mind watching that on Channel 4 if the Padres team can’t be bothered to broadcast it.
by Stephen (shaynes41) on Jun 4, 2010 8:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Sniff
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by thenerdhater on Jun 4, 2010 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Let's not forget this...nevermind let's forget this.
“On July 21, 1970, in the Padres’ second season, Preston Gomez, the Padres’ manager, lifted starter Clay Kirby for a pinch hitter after eight innings of no-hit ball, only to lose both the no-hitter and the game.”
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by icaughthundleys#4 on Jun 4, 2010 8:15 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm not generally one to speak ill of the dead (although I always speak ill of The Dead)
but when Preston Gomez died, the first thought that popped in my head was “He was that dumbass that pulled Clay Kirby.”
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My problem with instant replay is that it will make
games that are already super long… even longer. Every stolen base, diving catch, check swing, foul ball near the line, or close call at first could “mean the game”.
"This team looks dangerous, like a convict with a temper, nothing to lose and a switch blade." -jbox
To me
The simplest addition for replay would be “plays at the plate”. However, that wouldn’t fix this Perfect Game problem.
However, I’m thinking a guy in a booth or truck with TV monitors who uses the normal delay that comes after a play to check out a couple of angles and then buzz the home plate umpire if he has a call to overturn could work. Especially, considering that on most controversial plays you already have a considerable delay as the manager comes out to argue.
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Thats a good point... I think the one Costas made on MLB Network
I like the idea… he mentioned that, for the playoffs, that would all be super easy to implement… but would be very expensive to do for all regular season games.
"This team looks dangerous, like a convict with a temper, nothing to lose and a switch blade." -jbox
God forbid
The MLB spend a bunch of extra cash to make their game seem more proactive and people-friendly. We wouldn’t want to get some good PR for the league now would we? What good could that possibly do?
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Bolts from the Blue - General Manager: It is what it isn't
I agree with this sentiment.
"This team looks dangerous, like a convict with a temper, nothing to lose and a switch blade." -jbox
with the actual sentiment? or with the sarcastically implied sentiment?
by Stephen (shaynes41) on Jun 4, 2010 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions
He actually wants God to forbid the MLB to spend extra cash to make the game more proactive and people friendly.
He’s biblical that way.
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Bolts from the Blue - General Manager: It is what it isn't
Yes. I am a strict literalist.
"This team looks dangerous, like a convict with a temper, nothing to lose and a switch blade." -jbox
Yeah
I’m not buying the “they can’t afford to implement it” argument for a second.
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I guess I'm in the minority
but I don’t want instant replay. Maybe in the playoffs would be ok… but not in the regular season. I don’t really care that calls are wrong once in a while… it’s part of the game.
Getting pissed at the umps is part of what makes baseball fun.
by theodore donald kerabatsos on Jun 4, 2010 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't think it's fun at all
I think it’s unnecessary and it breeds negativity. “It’s part of the game” doesn’t check out with me either. “Whites only” used to be part of the game, too. To me, the game is constantly evolving and this is the next step it should take. Players say it all the time, it’s a game of adjustments.
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Plus
You need the evolution so you can tell your grandkids how it was in the good old days.
No, I don't think you're an idiot. Please don't go trying to prove me wrong about that.
Bolts from the Blue - General Manager: It is what it isn't
Whoa whoa whoa....
No need to go with the “you’re a racist sympathizer” line of reasoning. Jesus.
I’m not against change. I just don’t mind having human error being part of a game that’s played and officiated by humans. I like when one of our guys gets called safe on a play that he may have been out on. And I like getting pissed and taunting the umps when they make a bad call against our team.
I don’t need baseball to be 100% perfect. It’s there for our entertainment; it’s not life and death. And injustice makes for great drama.
by theodore donald kerabatsos on Jun 4, 2010 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
That wasn't the line of reasoning at all
The line of reasoning is that the game’s constantly changing and it always has been. Use the DH as an example if you want.
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I know weren't really calling me a racist...
I don’t even know what I’m arguing about. I just would prefer to leave instant replay out of baseball in most instances.
I can understand why people support it, but I just don’t trust MLB to enact it in a way that will make the game any more enjoyable for me… and that’s really all I care about.
by theodore donald kerabatsos on Jun 4, 2010 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions
A part of what was said by Costas
was that over 163 games, bad calls even out.
"This team looks dangerous, like a convict with a temper, nothing to lose and a switch blade." -jbox
While that may be true
I don’t think bad calls that decide games even out and those tend to have the most impact on pennant races.
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Bolts from the Blue - General Manager: It is what it isn't
True, but baseball is stingy... and I think they will take the Costas approach
"This team looks dangerous, like a convict with a temper, nothing to lose and a switch blade." -jbox
stingy is too nice a word
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I'd agree with Mike Marshall's paper he wrote in college
(as mentioned in Ball Four)
“Baseball Is An Ass”
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