Comments on: The Travesty

By: Ethel Donelon

Ethel Donelon — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:06:04 +0000

Good article, wish I could come up with stuff like that for my blog, lmfao.

By: Mark Weist

Mark Weist — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:32:27 +0000

I once had a bookie friend who told me, that in professional sports there is always an edge to be gained and that edge is always……always, with the bookmakers.

Ask yourself this: if someone in Vegas plunked down a million dollars at a Sports Book, betting there would be a 3rd perfect game this year at pretty good odds, how many phone calls were made from that Sports Book at say, around the 7th inning of a potential 3rd perfect game?

But hey, it’s just a game? Right?

By: Jason B

Jason B — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:29:52 +0000

Perfect games = far more rare? Yes. More important to the sport? Not even close. The champion of an entire season >>> the individual winner of a single game (even if it’s a perfect one!).

The perfect game impacts two teams for one game, and it would have had the same impact to their record whether the score was a 1-0 perfect game, or a 10-3 snoozefest. The champion reigns supreme over the whole sport until they’re replaced next season (assuming the are).

By: Coby DuBose

Coby DuBose — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:10:09 +0000

Hey, while we’re at it, can we use this committee to overturn the 10th inning of the Seattle game last night, and pick up the 11th inning sometime in August?

Oh, we can’t do that? Twins live with the loss and the Mariners pick up their 7th win of the season?

This article seems to be very knee-jerk and free of any real analysis into what is a more complicated situation than, “Hey, let’s adjust this here call!”

By: CircleChange11

CircleChange11 — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:21:01 +0000

The fact of the matter is thought, that changing the call now is wrong.

Now, that you’ve used the word ‘fact’ to represent ‘opinion’, I am compelled to ask for your supported explanation of how changing the call is WRONG.

I am not saying I dis/agree with your opinion, just that your authority of statement makes it irresistable for me to not ask for your explanantion. Your tone indicates that there’s no grey area and I would like to hear why you think that.

By: Scotto

Scotto — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:01:53 +0000

And IMO you aren’t opening up a can of worms because you are addressing the problem immediately. What happened is unique. It was the last out. The game was over. It was a perfect game. And the umpire messed up. If their was a replay umpire and a replay rule was in place than the call would have been overturned the perfect game stands. By using this one event, this unique one time event as a catalyst for the replay rule and implementing it into the game of baseball, how can you not overturn the call and have it used as an example.

Put an Astrix beside it in the record book, let it be known as the date baseball adopted replay, anything before that play becomes irrelevant because the perfect game had not yet happened and enough of the public was still against a replay system and baseball did not have a good enough reason to put a replay system in place. Because of this play they do!!!

That’s good enough for me and a good enough reason to do the right thing and recognize that a perfect game was thrown.

By: Scotto

Scotto — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:56:06 +0000

Oh and also.. Bud Selig should make an announcement allowing Galarraga’s perfect game to count in the record books and deleting the 28th out as an official at bat. With this announcement he should announce the adaptation of a replay system due to the technology available and specifically this incident as a catalyst for the adaptation and a timetable for when the system will be put into action in MLB games.

Galarraga’s perfect game was an exact example of what is wrong with baseball today and by using it as an example, even by opening up and changing the record books… this is a good thing. So what if their are many other blown calls that have hurt the game in the past. At some point you have to put a stop to this madness and fix the problem. If you finally say, “hey we realize we have been screwing up these past 10 years due to the technological advancements in the game, this one event is the breaking point and because of it we are fixing baseball for the better” then fix it and fix it right by putting Galarraga in the record books.