28 up and 28 down

Last night a perfect game was taking away from the Tigers Armando Galarraga with two outs in the 9th when in covering 1st the ball was in his glove and the his foot on the bag long before the Tribe's runner made it to first, A perfect game, except it wasn't. McDonald was ruled safe, and the game continued for one more batter, until he too was out, and the game officially ended in a one hit shutout. There are many ways to go with this:

A great pitching performance was ruined by a umps bad call, that ump needs to be fired and there needs to be instant replay on the bases

It's part of the game, it's human nature, he made a mistake, and admitted it, lets move on

There are calls missed in every game, if it was on the first out instead of the what would have been 27th it wouldn't have been as much as a big deal

What does it say about Jim Joyce that he still went with what he thought at the time was the right call when he could have just called him out to be the guy who made the last call in a perfect game. If it was a bang bang play, and it turned out he was safe, and he called them out, would people be on Joyce, he didn't get caught up in the moment he made the call he thought was right, looked at the replay, saw it was wong, and said he was sorry... for extra fun he is behind the plate for the day game today between the two teams, which I need to finish typing this fast, so I can watch.


There is talk of MLB stepping in and changing the call to make it a perfect game, even as a Tigers fan I think that is a very very bad idea. You are just asking for trouble.

Funniest thing about it, a buddy of mine was at the game, and on the way to the ball park he texted me how he was excited about going to the game but isn't crazy about Galarraga. I texted back he is fine, to which he texted back I don't want fine, I want exciting... well he got his exciting. It also ruined his night.

I do think there should be instant replays on the bases however. If you can get it right, don't you want to. They are human they are going to make mistakes, but why allow there to be mistakes made when you can easily not. That call would have taking 5 seconds if they have one replay official, like football, who looks at every base call, he beeps down, and lets the ump know it was the wrong call, and it is changed. It would take way less time then having the manager and other players run out and start yelling with the ump. There is no reason why this shouldn't happen. This was history but the Tigers won the game anyway, what if, they were still up 1-0, and he got on base and the next batter hit a home run to win the game, when the game should have been over and it should have been a perfect game, what if that one game coast a team a playoff spot. There needs to be instant replay on the bases, and I would love for anyone to try to talk me out of it. I'm right, you're wrong.