Sorry, to reduce this to playoff > regular season games is intellectual dishonesty. Joyce just blew Andres Galaraga's chance to enter the record books having accomplished one of the hardest things to do in baseball. There are 20, count it, 20 perfect games that have happened in history. To blow that call on the final out is absolutely shameless. Maybe in your world this won't carry any weight, but I'm willing to bet all the money in the world that this call is the straw; sitting on his ass will not be an option for Selig.
I'm not saying it isn't a high profile situation, but a regular season perfect game is not anywhere near as important as a playoff game. Even if you were to disagree with that, I hardly think calling someone who thought it "fucking delusional" is close to appropriate. Your position, while not "fucking delusional" is far closer to it than mine.
cool story bro. you're clearly on a different plane of existence that the rest of us regular-air breathing proletarians. One day i will achieve nirvana and reach your enlightened level of contrarian thought. until then, i'll continue to view this in line with the rest of society: as one of the shittiest calls ever in baseball.
"I just cost that kid a perfect game. I thought he beat the throw. I was convinced he beat the throw, until I saw the replay." -Jim Joyce PSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHH bahahahah
Hey "bro", are you retarded or something? When did I say it wasn't a shitty, terrible call? Since reading seems to be a weak point for you, I'll give you a hint. I didn't. I'm just able to have something called perspective. Shitty, terrible calls happen all the time in baseball. There are literally hundreds of blown calls in any given week. If you watch a single game you are very likely to see more than one. Obviously some are worse calls than others, and some are in more important situations than others. Just because I'm not having a knee jerk reaction of "OMG WORST CALL EVAR!!!!!1!!1" doesn't mean I don't agree that the call was absolutely terrible, and in an extremely high profile situation. My only disagreement with you is that I think the playoffs are a more important situation in the grand scheme of things than a regular season game, even one that has the potential to be a perfect game. A game being a either a perfect game or a one hitter is not going to change the outcome of the season. Blown calls in the playoffs easily can. That makes me "fucking delusional"? That means I'm on "a different plane of existence"? Get a fucking clue.
The Cuzzi call in last year's playoffs was absurd, but the Twins didn't win and weren't going to anyway. It was rather inconsequential, you could say. But, it did make you wonder what was in Cuzzi's eyes. Was he peeling onions on the field and had his vision temporarily ruined due to tears or something? Then there was the Don Denkinger call in the Cards-Royals WS. I think the worst was the Doug Edding call involving A.J. Pierzynski's 9th inning at-bat in Game 2 of the '05 ALCS. I'm gonna put tonight's call by Joyce at #2. It truly was unbelievably awful.
Umpires or officials being bigger stories than the players is wrong. Joyce is going to have to live with that horendous call for the rest of his career. Kudos to the kid Gallaraga. It is a great shame he was not awarded the Perfect Game he so deserved. In that case, wouldn't you just call the guy out even if it was close? I mean really. Bud Selig just shit a brick after watching that replay.
The elation on Galarraga's face as he steps on the bag and smiles, immediately wiped away with despair as the ump calls the guy safe was great to watch. Literally you see someone who thinks they accomplished a lifetime achievement and in a split second has it taken away. That said fuck the ump. In that situation if the batter is safe, black, blue, anything other than out...he's still out.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/umpires/bio.jsp?id=2536 James A. Joyce III...born in October 1955 in Ohio
even if joyce actually thought donald was safe, he should have just given galaragga the call. fucking douchebag.
That's been my take from the start. At the very worst, it was a bang-bang play and subject to the ump's discretion. It's the final out of a perfect game. It's not like it was the first out of the ninth, it was the final out of the game. And the ball was there. I highly doubt, even if the guy were safe, that anyone would have complained had Joyce gotten the call wrong in the other direction. Twenty times in the history of the game. That's huge.
It happens, can't forget game 6 of 1985 World Series, and that cost the Card s the Championship. Gallaraga and Joyce will make a mint signing pictures of "The almost perfecto" for years to come at memorabilia shows. The human element is part of the game. With all the damn pitching changes and whatnot, mlb cannot afford to slow the game down anymore.
same here. cant remember a kid who didn't try to imitate his swing. http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=8632465&topic_id=10728310&c_id=mlb
