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Originally Posted by jimpiano
By the end of the game the entire Tiger bench had seen the replay.
Joyce got slammed and deservedly so.
How can anyone blow a call that obvious under those conditions?
What an embarrassment to MLB.
The calls for replay will now reach a crescendo.
Joyce's fifteen minutes of fame will now be a week of infamy.
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Originally Posted by jimpiano
The idea that the first baseman somehow contributed to the confusion by fielding the ball and throwing out the runner on a pitcher covering is the most ludicrous defense I have seen on here.
It was a simple play and it was the 27th out of a perfect game!
I played first base.
That is a routine play for professionals who practice pitcher covering all year long.
No first basemen with an ounce of experience would let the ball go to the second basemen with the game or a perfect game on the line.
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Originally Posted by jimpiano
Except, of course, the first baseman made a routine play to the pitcher and got the runner by a step.
I mean this argument is a frigging joke.
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All of your comments are spoken like someone who has never umpired a friggin' tiddlywinks contest. You've never umpired before, have you Fanboy? an embarrassment to MLB? You're out of your mind! Sure, I played first base all through my baseball life but I've umpired over 3,500 games on top of it, and you seem to have the mindset of someone who thinks umpiring is easy. Jim Joyce is a fine umpire, and everyone misses calls once in a while. His miss just happened to coincide with a near-perfect game. As Kurtis Blow would say, these are the breaks.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty
We could have had two perfect games in a week and three in a month. Nice job of altering history. Thanks for busting to get a good angle with a guy's once-in-a-lifetime achievement on the line.
Sleep tight.
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I'm surprised by this reaction from you. Sounds like Joyce did this to you personally, as you say "we" could have had two perfect games in a week. Really? Who cares? Galaraga will get more mileage out of this than he would out of a perfect game. History will forever talk of the "perfect game that wasn't." The first thing I thought of when I heard this (listening to a talk show that was reporting live) was not to selfishly think how I was deprived of a perfect game, I thought about how badly Jim Joyce must feel right now.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty
Every umpire's hat should be off to Jim Joyce today.
The guy has handled the single most glaring call in over a generation with dignity and class. We should all be proud of the guy for the way he has taken this on.
Magnificent.
I'm telling you, when the red-eyed Joyce wiped his eyes and rubbed the tears off on his shirt, and turned and tapped Galarraga on the shoulder, it made you weep. This whole incident has elevated this pair of true professionals to an even higher level than completing the perfect game could have. Tom Verducci mentioned something like that and it's true.
What an amazing event.
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This is more along the lines of what I would expect out of you. The other comment was more like a fanboy. Jim Joyce is a stand-up guy in my book. Instead of being arrogant like many umpires would have been, he felt genuinely bad for Galaraga and the Tigers, and for history as well. Umpires who care about the game don't like it when they blow a call. Whenever it happens to me, I beat myself up about it for quite sometime.
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Originally Posted by DLH17
Speaking of Denkinger, he must be loving the fact he's off the hotseat now after 25 years.
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Not in St. Louis.
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Originally Posted by johnnyg08
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It also proves that Sid Hartman is a stupid imbecile.
