Selig blew perfect chance to be leader for once

You should have reversed the call, Bud. For the first time in your irresolute reign as commissioner of Major League Baseball, you could have been a leader.

When you have the ability to correct an injustice, you also have an obligation to do just that. Bud Selig had the ability and the authority to reverse umpire Jim Joyce’s blown call and declare Armando Galarraga the newest owner of a perfect game.

What’s great about this is that the situation is unique. It’s never happened that a pitcher lost a perfect game on the last out because of a clear mistake by an umpire that’s right there on a DVD for all to see. So there is no precedent to break, just one to set.

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you are Ginat Bonds fan. There have always been bad calls, and unless you change the rules you cannot change what has been called. There are a lot of bad calls on dvd, beyond this one.

Unless you change the rules, you can NEVER retroactively change a result.

Those are far, far worse than this one.

The call was retroactively changed even though the call on the field was correct and as a result the game was continued weeks later and a different team ended up winning.

It was a judgment call. Yes, the ump was wrong. But it happens. We would have to go back and fix many games if we allowed this call to be reversed. I am all for expanded instant replay, though.

He doesn't understand what it takes to be a leader.

It's time for him to step down.

It is nauseating that the game of baseball has this guy as a commissioner.

Truly pathetic.

Personally I don't think anything should be done unless he can go back and fix other bad calls. Personally I wouldn't mind replaying the ninth inning of game 3 of the NLDS. :evilgrin:

Foul-called fair.


I can't a picture that shows the play rightafter Helton has the ball. From replays it did appear he beat the throw but it doesn't matter because it was a foul ball in the first place. This is what I got though. (He was called safe)



With that play, instead of two outs and a man on third in the top of the ninth, it was one out with a man on 1st and 3rd with the score tied 5-5. Next better Ryan Howard hits a sacrifice fly which turned out to be the winning run.

Seriously I'm fine with how everything turned out and wouldn't want to change the outcome, primarily because they still had a game 4 and still had the bottom of the ninth to either tie or win the game so it doesn't concern me. What concerns me which I believe would help out in either case is INSTANT REPLAY!!! That's what Bud Selig needs to implement, not changing certain scores of baseball games.