The ump is referring inquiries to his lawyers - Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe ...
Posted on 06/02/2010 7:41:40 PM PDT by sand lake bar
Are you Jim Joyce (the ump)?
check out this snapshot. It is a snowcone catch but clearly the Tigers were robbed.
The ump is referring inquiries to his lawyers - Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe ...
Sam, you are clearly an Indians fan or something. That call wasn’t even CLOSE to being correct.
‘bang bang’ my old butt! good grief, it was not close whatsoever......even after a possible ‘bobble’ was controlled in the 1B’s mitt.
MLB needs to step up. The guy might never have another perfect game going into the ninth inning.
The thing that really hurts is that this moment in history cannot be taken back,. Whats done is done. Tough day for Tiger fans.
BTW, a future First Ballot Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. . retired from MLB as a player today, that is over shadowed to some degree by this blown call.
I think the ump screwed up but things happen pretty fast and we are human. Hopefully we can finally reign in the union thug chumps behind the plate and get electronic equipment for home plate (balls vs strikes)and instant replay for those really large blunders. I bet the umps union and mlb fall in line and back the Ump.
Good game Tigers. Better Umps next time.
And there is precedent for MLB reversing calls and stats too, not only from that Yankee-Royals "Pine Tar" game, where game stats after the Ump made the call were temporarily wiped until MLB re-established Brett's home run as a stat, but that the game would be 'replayed' and 'continued' from that exact point in the game, thereby wiping out any stats which occurred afterward.
In the late 80's there were a bunch of "no-hitters" awarded to starting pitchers who didn't finish the game. They were called "Combined No-Hitters", where a relief pitcher would finish the 'no-hitter' for the starting pitcher .. the whole concept was ludicrous! In one case (I think it was my Yankees) a 'no-hitter' was awarded to a pitcher (Andy Hawkins?) who actually LOST the game on a bunch of walks and fielding errors ... but was awarded a No-Hitter nontheless!!!
MLB put a stop to all that ludicrous nonsense and completely wiped those 'records' from the books. They can do the same in this case, and really they should. The runner was OUT, clearly at any camera angle .. even the drunken guy up in the cheap seats could tell, albeit in triplicate :)
yep, been watching the Mariners game tonight since the 6PM pre game. no hint of steroids. married to a woman who he met on Mercer Island when he was about 20 iirc. a man who’s number one devotion is to his family.....and nobody can ever slam a man for that....but in seattle they did, after he left for cinny. enough to make an old timer ill. this young man was a great man in seattle to/for the children. ........not running hard to first.............bullshit! the limps that slam him for that I say...when an MLB batter hits a routine grounder to second....he is out 999% of the time. why dig?.....why risk a hammy when you MIGHT beat it out, once???? your value to the team is much greater than one dig out to first.. but you know there are still liberal sheeple in Seattle that fang him for that? that is all you need to know about the liberal cesspool that is Seattle Wa. when kenny left, for Cin., to be with his wife and kids, you can’t believe what was said here. disgusting.
yep, been watching the Mariners game tonight since the 6PM pre game. no hint of steroids. married to a woman who he met on Mercer Island when he was about 20 iirc. a man who’s number one devotion is to his family.....and nobody can ever slam a man for that....but in seattle they did, after he left for cinny. enough to make an old timer ill. this young man was a great man in seattle to/for the children. ........not running hard to first.............bullshit! the limps that slam him for that I say...when an MLB batter hits a routine grounder to second....he is out 999% of the time. why dig?.....why risk a hammy when you MIGHT beat it out, once???? your value to the team is much greater than one dig out to first.. but you know there are still liberal sheeple in Seattle that fang him for that? that is all you need to know about the liberal cesspool that is Seattle Wa. when kenny left, for Cin., to be with his wife and kids, you can’t believe what was said here. disgusting.
Ree-diculous.Award the perfect game to Gallarraga posthumously, or whatever the correct term is. I’m so mad that’s the only word I can think of right now.
“Kinda crazy that we’ve had 2 official perfect games, and another unofficial (this one) perfect game this season. I think there’s only been about 20 in all of MLB history. To have three in one year is unreal.”
I agree and when we had the 2 happen in a month’s time, I heard that previously the least amount of time between 2 of them was in the neighborhood of 2 years. To have 3 in 7 weeks time is astounding.
“I just watched the video several times and the runner sure looked like he beat the throw to me. Admittedly it was very close but obviously the right call by the umpire.”
Go back to DU troll!
IBTZ?
;-)
“The runner was OUT, clearly at any camera angle .. even the drunken guy up in the cheap seats could tell, albeit in triplicate :)”
How did you know I was there?
j/k
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