http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5246454
I say, "You betcha."
You betcha.
Nothing of any importance would be altered. A hit that wasn't will be taken away. The final out will be expunged. A very, very clean fix. And a kid who deserves it gets a perfect game.
Other opinions?
Also, three perfect games in a season? Amazing.
Finally, is Jacoby soft? No, he isn't. I can tell you from experience that it can take three months for the pain from a cracked rib to subside.
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Also, the umpire is regarded as one of the best in baseball and appears to be a class act. An overturn would relieve him of a lot of his guilt.
I agree Dad!
I really wonder what happened in that umpire's mind when he made the call. He said he was sure he got it right until he saw the replay. But, really, it just wasn't even that close at all.
My only objection to overturning the call is that there are a hundred years worth of bad calls that were equally deserving of being overturned, and often had bigger impacts in bigger games, and now there would be precedent to go back and change calls from the past. As much as I want to give him the perfect game, I'm not really ready to draw a line at June 2nd, 2010, and say that any missed call after this date can be overturned but any missed call earlier can not. What I WOULD like to do is allow the use of instant replay for everything except balls and strikes, effective immediately.
As an ESPN talking head said yesterday, having instant replay available would not only have been fair to Galarraga, but to Joyce as well.
I agree about instant replay, but not if it's like the NFL's system. Maybe baseball managers are smarter, I don't know, but it seems that NFL coaches are too stupid to understand that when the replay shows that the ref was right you should NOT challenge the call.
The Commish should overturn it. Past records have been modified to negate no hitters. Matt Young, Harvey Haddix are two examples. I heard one today that Babe Ruth walked the first batter of the game and got into it with the ump who threw him out. The new pitcher got the next batter to ground into a double play and faced the minimum of 26 batters. No perfect game--no no hitter.
Jacoby is not soft, but at the moment his career resembles that of Harry Agannis. Let's hope it turns around. His agent has got his finger in this pie, you can bet.
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