I really hate Bud Selig..

[Hullfan]

What an idiot


http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-imperfectgame

 

[George_Calfas]

Everyone could hope but all knew what his stance would be.

 

[Topnotchsy]

I don't think he could have done it any other way without it causing a ton of other issues. No way you can change the rules for one play and then you'd have a million other calls (that actually affected the outcome of the game) that you'd have to go back and consider changing. It stinks for Armando, but it's the right call by Selig.

 

[MojoDan]

A few years from now, when my son is more into sports and I try my best to teach him about integrity, understanding, and forgiveness - Gallaraga will be the first video I turn to.

What a great person to respond in the manner he did.

 

[notjomommasclint]

i am not a selig fan but thats the right call. there is no way you change that horrible call after the players and umps leave the field. imo the umps needed to confer and even review above the replay rules to make sure the right call is made. even if it took 10-20 minutes i am sure the fans and players would rather have the right call. and i am not a fan of the full replay idea but i support it if its a home runl, fair foul issue (after the play is ran out), and baserunning.

to quote leyland "its not a day to boo a bad call but a day to cheer integrity"

 

[All The Hype]

A few years from now, when my son is more into sports and I try my best to teach him about integrity, understanding, and forgiveness - Gallaraga will be the first video I turn to.

What a great person to respond in the manner he did.

Just about to post about this.

What a class act. You know that's gotta be one of the biggest disappointments any athlete has ever gone through in professional sports but he never swore, threw a fit, argued, complained, or anything of that nature. He held his head high, shook it off, and got out #28 to complete a remarkable performance.

“There’s no doubt he feels bad and terrible,” Galarraga said after Detroit beat Cleveland 12-6 on Thursday. “I have a lot of respect for the man. It takes a lot to say you’re sorry and to say in interviews he made a mistake.”

“I’m sad, but I know that I pitched a perfect game. The first 28-out perfect game,” he said.

He's right. And I've gained a ton of respect for this guy in the last 24 hours.

 

[AK11]

I agree on the Pandora box of all the missed calls of baseball past, but the one reason this call was possible to be overturned is because it did not at all affect the outcome of the game and it was on arguably the last out/play of the game. The box score changes just by eliminating the 28th at-bat. I assume alot of the mistakes of past history in baseball would effect scores, wins/losses, series, multiple stats, etc. This call doesn't really affect any of those if you just called the 27th batter out. One thing to consider is the media attention of this blown call is so much that by Selig not doing anything the ump and his family will keep receiving threats from alot of fans. Something to consider for the safety of the ump...

 

[Pine Tar]

Congrats Bud you finally got something right. I know and everyone else knows by now this was a perfect game.
But with baseball this is a human element game, so with that, you can't go back and change what happen like 24 hours later.
In baseball errors can be changed later to hits and hits to errors, but with this if it was not over-ruled right away it should never happen then days later.

If you start using this as an argument for instant replay for every close play then the games will go on for 4-5 hours now and would get real ugly fast. In my opinion this obvious was a blown call, but with like almost every play at first it is up to the human that we instill
to make that call, and even then it is his opinion. Time to move on and hopefully this never happens again, but we all know there will be another close play in some game that will change the outcome of the game, or even dash someone date with the records books.

 

[smapdi]

Not an idiot. There are lots of blown calls and retrofitting one would lead to calls to 'fix' them all, from last night's fiasco to the '85 World Series and beyond. And there would be no good reason not to, other than it's impossible.

 

[rymflaherty]

I get why he'd say no and honestly that's what I initialy thought he should do.

That being said - after seeing how everybody responded, I think the fitting end to the story would have been reversing the call. I get it sets a bad precedent - but judging from the reactions I heard - commentators, other players/managers - it seemed everyone would have been on board and realized it was a one time thing - and what everyone involved deserved.

I do wonder if Selig approached Cleveland and there was resistance on their part. I haven't heard anything from their players.....I know if I was Selig and even the opposition came forward and said they didn't feel right about it and wanted it changed it would be hard to say no.

 

[Lancemountain]

That's the right thing to do.


And as much as Gallarraga was a class act, I think Leyland and the Tigers org handled it with upmost class.

Sucks but we *did* witness a nice lesson in respect and people behaving admiraly in this milton bradley age....

 

[zach]

A few years from now, when my son is more into sports and I try my best to teach him about integrity, understanding, and forgiveness - Gallaraga will be the first video I turn to.

What a great person to respond in the manner he did.

Add...owning up to your mistakes and tell him about Joyce