Thursday, June 3, 2010

No one's perfect, except cameras


Armando Galaragga pitched a perfect game. period.

I have never been this angry about something to do with sports in my life. Every North American pro sports league uses replay, except for MLB. Baseball is the sport that needs it the most!

MLB has to get out of the dark ages and move into 2010 where we have the technology to get the calls right. SCREW THE HUMAN ELEMENT. HUMANS ARE WRONG.

Why are important calls in important situations in important games being left to a guess? A simple replay showed that Galaragga has indeed pitched a perfect game, but since MLB is so intent on pleasing baseball purists and is basically just stupid they won't use replay to make calls.

Look, Bud Selig is the worst commissioner in sports. He screwed up steroids, he doesn't market the game well at all, and lacrosse is going to be more popular than baseball in 10 years, but he could do one positive thing now...

Implement instant replay to get close calls right and give Galaragga the perfect game. Knowing Selig, he's not gonna do either of those things. Selig Sucks. Galaragga's perfect.

But, this whole ordeal has provided a world class example of sportsmanship from both the Tigers and the umpire Jim Joyce. No one feels worse than Joyce who apologized and has been brought to tears, while the Tigers have handled the situation to well, perfection.

As for Galaragga, he has been incredible, offering support for Joyce and staying all smiles. This "perfect game" will go down as the most infamous of all time, so Galaragga doesn't belong to the club of 20 pitchers to pitch official perfect games, but a club of one.

Galaragga knows he was perfect, so do the fans and so does everyone else. So in the end, what does the record book actually mean. Hell, half the records in the official record book are false anyway (steroids) so it only makes sense for baseball to leave out a record that is real.

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