Officials taking responsibility

[CoachBo]

My hat is off to the way the Tiger pitcher, Gallaraga, and the umpire who stole the kid's perfect game, Jim Joyce, handled one of the worst calls in baseball history.

Gallaraga displayed great class in his calm response and more significantly to our favorite topic here, the NBA, Joyce fessed up like a man immediately, taking responsiblity for a horrific call that will, unfortunately, define his career.

There's a lesson for this to David Stern in the imperial, infallible way he approaches some very inept officials in his employ.

[Frezz]

What the hell kind of dark spirits must you have floating through your soul to not give that kid the benefit of the doubt on the last out of a perfect game!? Yikes.

[ejk3489]

My hat is off to the way the Tiger pitcher, Gallaraga, and the umpire who stole the kid's perfect game, Jim Joyce, handled one of the worst calls in baseball history.

Gallaraga displayed great class in his calm response and more significantly to our favorite topic here, the NBA, Joyce fessed up like a man immediately, taking responsiblity for a horrific call that will, unfortunately, define his career.

There's a lesson for this to David Stern in the imperial, infallible way he approaches some very inept officials in his employ.

TP...the way Galarraga handled that was beyond what I would expect most pitchers to react. This is what he said in the postgame:

"He really feels bad," Galarraga said. "He probably feels more bad than me. Nobody is perfect. I give a lot of credit to that guy. That (an apology) doesn't happen. He apologized. He feels really bad. Nobody is perfect. What am I gonna do? His body language said more than a lot of words. His eyes were watery, he didn't have too say much. His body language said a lot."

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100602&content_id=10727590&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

Classy guy...can't say that's how I would of handled it.

But man, what a terrible, terrible call.

[Redz]

Whassup with all of the perfect games?

[Donoghus]

Whassup with all of the perfect games?

No kidding.  This stretch has been unreal.

[Fafnir]

I feel awful for the pitcher, less so for the umpire. At least he's owning up to the mistake. If this doesn't allow for some sort of review nothing ever will.

[jimmehx]

I dont really follow baseball but "Officials taking responsibility" seemed interesting.

What a shame for everyone involved. How often do they overturn calls in the MLB?

I hope for all their sakes that this gets another look...!

[bruinsandceltics]

"Officials taking responsibility"

You had me going there for a second. I thought something in the NBA changed and the officials decided they were going to own up for their terrible job in Game 5 of the Magic series.

Like the NBA will ever hold their officials accountable.

[celticsclay]

I also dont get how he didnt give the kid the benefit of the doubt there. That was the most shocking part of today.

[Tai]

MLB Refs > NBA Refs for Joyce admitting the call.

Still, after seeing the replay....I'm horrified. Simply horrified.

[Bahku]

Horrible call ... and it's a shame that this kid was robbed of a perfect game ... really sad. However, kudos to Joyce for manning up, and major kudos to Gallaraga for not being upset, and saying, (in reference to Joyce), "Everyone's human ... everyone makes mistakes." ... Gallaraga is a class act.

[action781]

Horrible call ... and it's a shame that this kid was robbed of a perfect game ... really sad. However, kudos to Joyce for manning up, and major kudos to Gallaraga for not being upset, and saying, (in reference to Joyce), "Everyone's human ... everyone makes mistakes." ... Gallaraga is a class act.

Class class class class class class act.  The blown call isn't even as big of a story to me as what a class act Gallaraga showed he is here.  I hope that Gallaraga has some good things coming to him in life.  He seems like just a nice, happy guy.  Man, what a role model.

BTW, it is already on wikipedia.

[Donoghus]

I feel really bad for Gallaraga but its nice to see the umpire admitting fault here and Gallaraga, seemingly, handle it well.  

[Frezz]

I also dont get how he didnt give the kid the benefit of the doubt there. That was the most shocking part of today.

It's really kind of evil when you think about it. Jim Joyce must hate puppies, rainbows and popsicles.

[FallGuy]

Just brutal.

It's 2010.

We have the technology.

MLB and all the other major sports need to use replay more effectively.