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Arsik wrote on 2010-06-03 02:12
Basically, this: Armando Gallaraga of the Detroit Tigers is pitching a perfect game (no hits, walks, or errors allowed, for those who don't know baseball terms that well) through eight and two-thirds innings, meaning he was one out away from getting the achievement. Then Jason Donald hits the ball to Miguel Cabrera, who then makes a nice throw to Gallaraga who tagged First Base. The first base umpire, Jim Joyce, called Donald safe, even though replays showed that Donald was out by half a step.
Video (Low Quality):
[video=youtube;9tP4Qr1hK6w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tP4Qr1hK6w[/video]
As you can (barely) see, even Donald thought that he was thrown out at the bag. However, Joyce somehow saw that Donald made it safe. After that god awful call, Gallaraga got the next batter to end the game with a one-hitter.
In this video, you will probably be under the presumption that Joyce did it on purpose. I know I am, look at the smug look on his face after the play ended:
[video=youtube;T4vumnoaqA8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4vumnoaqA8[/video]
Anyways, if Joyce wasn't being a troll, and called the game fairly, then this would have been the first time in baseball history that three perfect games were thrown in a single season of professional baseball. And throwing a perfect game isn't easy. There has only been 20 in the entire history of the game, so having three in a single season would have been huge in the baseball community.
And this calamity is the one of the few things that I don't like about professional baseball. A single person can ruin the game because he wants it to. If baseball was like other sports, then the game would have ended, because instant replay would have shown that Donald was clearly out.
And I hope that all of you would know that Joyce had to be escorted out of the stadium by security because the 17,000+ in attendance, plus all the baseball fans in Detroit would be waiting outside of the stadium for him to lynch him, if not worse.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-06-03 02:20
Sports in general.
There is so much cheating, and cameras reveal this. Judges are bias, and they call whatever they want. If the judge calls it, its the judge's decision.
Certain sports are finally moving up. You can challenge judge decisions by using cameras, though overusing this leads to penalties, especially if you're wrong.
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Time wrote on 2010-06-03 02:21
Gah! That stinks! Its so unfortunate when one persons wrong decision ruins the game for people...
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-06-03 02:28
Quote from Margatroid;53398:
Sports in general.
There is so much cheating, and cameras reveal this. Judges are bias, and they call whatever they want. If the judge calls it, its the judge's decision.
Certain sports are finally moving up. You can challenge judge decisions by using cameras, though overusing this leads to penalties, especially if you're wrong.
there's also 3d simulations for a more clear replay
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Axx wrote on 2010-06-03 03:16
They tried to put instant replay in baseball before, but it's the goddamn umpires' union that blocked it, citing the need for the 'human' element of officiating. It's bullsh't, but somehow they managed to get their way and limit it to home-runs. MLB itself (along with most professional sport officials) is a joke, I'm pretty sure they set who would be the most 'profitable' to win and tell the officials to try to push the game that way.
Hopefully this'll actually make MLB change something, but who knows, I think Nexon does better than them.
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Hiccup wrote on 2010-06-03 03:23
Lol wuh, so stupid
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Intex wrote on 2010-06-03 03:54
They needed to keep the [S]'human' element of officiating[/S] bias?
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EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-06-03 14:39
The umpire was just jealous of the possible achievement, and wanted to screw the person over. Typical professionalism seen in sports nowadays.
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Beepuke wrote on 2010-06-03 16:55
Well, they don't allow instant replays on ump calls except in cases of home runs (correct me if I'm wrong). And I actually just read an article about this in the NYTimes, and it doesn't seem like Joyce deliberately screwed Gallaraga over. He seemed quite apologetic about it after seeing the replay, and Gallaraga had a sportsmanlike response about it. (Although he's probably disappointed like hell :[ )
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Axx wrote on 2010-06-03 18:29
If the commissioner of baseball actually cared about the sport itself, he'd overrule Joyce's call and give Gallaraga the perfect game that everyone knows he had (he's the f'cking commissioner, he could do it if he wanted). Unfortunately...
EDIT: Haha, Bud Selig, the commissioner, has announced he won't change the blown call. What a farce.