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Umpire BLOWS Galarraga's Perfect Game

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Don't they already have the option of reviewing whether or not a home run is fair or foul? An umpire, should he want to, ought to be allowed to stop play and review his own call. Give him up to two self-reviews a game, and/or one challange by each manager. With HD cameras all over the game, and at least this umpire willing to fess up he blew a call, there's no excuse not to have reviews...
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1711079; said:
Don't they already have the option of reviewing whether or not a home run is fair or foul? An umpire, should he want to, ought to be allowed to stop play and review his own call. Give him up to two self-reviews a game, and/or one challange by each manager. With HD cameras all over the game, and at least this umpire willing to fess up he blew a call, there's no excuse not to have reviews...
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It is all of the old school fans that are bitching right now on ESPN and in the media that still won't budge on the issue of instant replay. I, for the life of me do not understand why. They already have the technology in the park... why not use it??
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1711070; said:
The umpire admitted he [censored]ed it up. It would've been the last out of the game. I disagree with those he think that allowing the call to be overturned would open pandora's box. The only situation where a called "safe" should be allowed to be overturned to "out" is if it's the last out, as it was here. Umpires should have the option of looking at replay for a call as important as this.
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Or, at least what's within the rules, the Umpire could have asked for "help" with the call from the rest of the crew. Although this would have been out of the ordinary since he was only about 10 feet from the play itself and had a good angle. No doubt though, if he had deferred to the second or third base Umpire, they would have told him that dude was out.

Sad for the kid from Detroit, but the game is what it is. You play the game as a player for 27 outs and you Unpire the game as an Ump for 27 outs. Joyce thought that Donald was safe. Now (as shiity as they are) the Tribe is another baserunner away from sending the tying run to the plate.

Crazy stuff.

Peace
 
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2 things for me on this one:

1) If you have replay overturn bad fuckings like this one then that makes all the old fuckings feel that much worse because they wouldn't be fuckings today. That's why I think you are seeing the "old school" guys say to hell with replay on this. If you had to go through something that sucked real bad are you going to let some new guy get out of his fair share of pain and misery? Of course not, fuck him.

Also, if you did overturn this one then you are going to have to overturn the Don Deckinger call and that means you are going to have to deal with Jaquin Andujar all over again. I don't want to be anywhere near ground zero if you overturn this one and leave that one. That fucker is slap crazy.

2) I think all this replay talk is making people miss the bigger issue at play here. This is clearly another sign from God that he hates the city of Detroit, the state of M*ch*gan and all who inhabit it (except for expatriated Buckeyes of course). Lets just trust the coach on this one.
 
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When the out is the last out of the game and you change the "safe" to an "out", it's totally different than changing an "out" to a "safe" and giving a team a chance to win when they shouldn't have it. Also, since it's the last out of the game, and not any other inning, you don't have the guessing, "Well, the batters subsequently coming to the plate are different than had the call not been reversed". If there were ever a perfect situation to allow an umpire to reverse his call, this was it.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1711079; said:
Don't they already have the option of reviewing whether or not a home run is fair or foul? An umpire, should he want to, ought to be allowed to stop play and review his own call. Give him up to two self-reviews a game, and/or one challange by each manager. With HD cameras all over the game, and at least this umpire willing to fess up he blew a call, there's no excuse not to have reviews...
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I agree, but if you added just two or three reviews to a Red sox Yankee game you'd have a five hour marathon. Those guys can play some 'stall ball.'
 
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The play was a lot closer than that pic indicates. From the ump's side view, Galarraga was bobbeling it and ended up snowconing it at the end. Guy was definitely still out but that picture makes it look unquestionably bad.
 
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No problem with it.

This isn't the first pitcher to go 8 2/3 into a perfect game. This isn't the first pitcher to have a blown call to cost him a perfect game (and, let's keep in mind, this isn't costing his team a win, or even a run... ) and it wasn't even that bad of a call live. That is to say, it was close. In that case, I personally would have sided on calling the out - but.... doing so would have been wrong of me. Here's why - Umpires (or any official) should call what they see, not what they'd prefer, and certainly not what "history" calls for. Joyce did his job. He called what he saw.

No one should be overturning anything. It would have been pretty cool to see two perfect games in a week, and 3 in a month. But, it didn't happen. Too bad.
 
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What the hell was going through Jason Donald's head on the play? I noticed he put his hands on his head like, "Oh no!" when he was called safe ... like he didn't want to screw up the perfect game by busting it down the line. Donald looked like he was disgusted with the call too.
 
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ghost of tibor;1711116; said:
Funny the comments about Tigers being a Michigan team. There are more Tigers fans in Toledo than Indians. Can you blame them for not rooting for one of the worst franchises in sports history?
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Detroit is in m*ch*g*n, no? And, Toledo is one of those "tweener" areas. That phenomenon is hardly limited to to Tigers/Indians. It's all over the country.
 
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I haven't looked at the schedule, but do the Tigers play the Indians again?

Shit, put Galaragga on the mound again. He's got a pretty good shot at another perfect game against that shitty line up.
 
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