Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
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"I do what I want to do and say what I want to say."
--Bronson Arroyo
It was a mistake. It happens. I don't think the ump is any happier about it than anyone else. That play gets missed by umps ALL THE TIME. Joyce just happens to have missed it on the last out of a perfect game. Hitters miss pitches. Pitchers leave the ball up. Umps miss calls. It was a bad call. But I lean towards what Rick said. I think he was trying so hard to not be biased, that he screwed it up.
Even if Selig could change it, there's no way to give Gallaraga and Tigers that moment on the field back.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
In any other world, you'd be fired if you did something so awful on the job.
In baseball it's called the "human element."
"Human element" is French for "We have the technology to get the call right, but we're not going to do that."
And truthfully- the "human element" should go the other way- if I were umping, the runner would have had to been in left field before I called him safe.
Roy Halladay had a strike zone 6 inches wider than the rules stipulate...as that game wore on, it got wider and wider....
I feel bad for Jim Joyce. His life will never be the same. Did you see Jason Donald's reaction? He couldn't believe the call.
If Joyce says he called him safe because of the movement of the ball in the glove, could the official scorer change it to an error on Galarraga to at least give him a no-hitter?
"Why are those Dodger pitchers in the Reds bullpen?"-GAC August 28, 2009
Originally Posted by teamselig
Life sucks. People in Africa are starving. And millionaires are deprived of jumping up and down on a big grass diamond sprayed with chemicals leeching into the groundwater. Jim Joyce will survive.
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