Talk about your bad beats.

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by ninetoone

The "dangerous precedent" and "big can of worms" argument is a chicken sh*t response to a once in a lifetime play & event.

Every once in awhile, leaders need to snap in their spine & do the right thing. Hopefully this will be one of those times.

Totally disagree with that. Where would it stop? What are they going to do, implement a rule that the commish could only overturn the 27th and final out of a perfect game if called wrong? What would have happened if he was actually safe and ruled out? Would they overturn that call and take the kid out of the record books? I highly doubt it.

It sucks and it was a bad call. The more I think about it, I just think that it's very poor luck for Galaragga.

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Totally disagree with that. Where would it stop? What are they going to do, implement a rule that the commish could only overturn the 27th and final out of a perfect game if called wrong? What would have happened if he was actually safe and ruled out? Would they overturn that call and take the kid out of the record books? I highly doubt it.

It sucks and it was a bad call. The more I think about it, I just think that it's very poor luck for Galaragga.

Excellent point.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Totally disagree with that. Where would it stop? What are they going to do, implement a rule that the commish could only overturn the 27th and final out of a perfect game if called wrong? What would have happened if he was actually safe and ruled out? Would they overturn that call and take the kid out of the record books? I highly doubt it.

It sucks and it was a bad call. The more I think about it, I just think that it's very poor luck for Galaragga.

And what would have happened if the next guy doubled, he walked the next two and they hit a grand slam to win the game? Now are you going to rule the game was really over before all that happened?

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

And what would have happened if the next guy doubled, he walked the next two and they hit a grand slam to win the game? Now are you going to rule the game was really over before all that happened?

I know we could cover every what if there is, like are we even having this conversation if this call happened in the 2nd inning? Probably not.

But I'll admit at first I was kind of hoping that MLB would do the right thing. But the more I think about it, they just can't. Granted it was an injustice, but unfortunately that's a part of the game. There is probably a blown call or 2 in the the previous 20 perfect games that were pitched (going with or against the pitcher in the books). If this is about getting the call right and putting Galaragga in the books, don't they owe it to history to go back and purge whatever pitcher got into the books due to a wrong call that went his way? I just think MLB would be entering dangerous territory.