tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post6382093132596309132..comments2023-07-04T06:58:32.627-04:00Comments on View on the News: IneptitudeMoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13612323587459830074noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post-81915914386343873132010-06-05T08:51:33.957-04:002010-06-05T08:51:33.957-04:00Perhaps the part of this story that is being misse...Perhaps the part of this story that is being missed is the character of the two people involved. The ump was up-front immediately after the game, "I made a mistake." He has expressed himself gracefully in the error of his call.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the pitcher has shown great character in his response to the matter. He could have been outraged, expressed disdain and hostility for the ump, for the league, for anybody involved. But, he has not. He gracefully accepted the outcome, and is not letting the missed call drag him down.<br /><br />If there is any lesson to be learned from this, the response of these two people is noteworthy.<br /><br />I'm not sure about the Corvette, however. Still puzzled about this one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post-75725460045566542952010-06-04T21:08:22.227-04:002010-06-04T21:08:22.227-04:00And then there are people, like me, who don't ...And then there are people, like me, who don't know what a perfect game means... ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post-17591365926940675832010-06-04T18:00:55.952-04:002010-06-04T18:00:55.952-04:00ellipses, yes, there are facts involved here, but ...ellipses, yes, there are facts involved here, but still this story has long legs that mean people are interested in getting the call changed. Why? Who cares? In the big scheme of things, baseball is so unimportant, it doesn't make a blip on the radar screen.<br /><br />Why do we get all worked up over something so trivial? Because we want to feel good about the pitcher who had pitched a perfect game. A perfect game, or no perfect game, makes absolutely no difference.<br /><br />The point of the post about conviction and principle is trying to related the notion of changing something so that others will like a better outcome (not unlike the slaves issue you raised). It is all part of not wanting to embrace an absolute truth. The game is over, the outcome recorded, regardless of what happened. <br /><br />Many batters missed the ball with their bat during that game. It was a negative. The winning team undoubtedly made bad plays during the game. During any football games passes are overthrown, another mistake. Defensive backs miss a defensive play, allowing a receiver to catch the ball for a score. In other words, mistakes are part of every athletic event. Athletic events capitalize on two things, good plays, and bad plays. In this case, the ump made a bad call, and so many want to change the outcome of the game. What other bad plays do we start including in the reasons for changing the outcome of an event? Done is done. The outcome is recorded. <br /><br />To digress even further, do away with all technology in athletic events, such as instant replay. As stated before, athletic events are governed by negative plays. It is part of the game. If everybody, including the officials, were all perfect in execution, the game would be boring.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post-78236920352228042182010-06-04T10:09:00.451-04:002010-06-04T10:09:00.451-04:00"People have changed history often because th..."People have changed history often because they didn't like what it said. "<br /><br />We aren't talking about changing calls (or history, for that matter) because we didn't like it... but because it was wrong. <br /><br />Whether you like it or not, that guy was out at first and Galarraga threw a perfect game... whether you like it or not, Thomas Jefferson had sexual relations with his slaves. You don't change the record of events because they don't fit your world view, you change them to reflect the facts and the reality of the situation. By the codified and accepted rules of baseball, the runner was out. If you do not align the official record to reflect that fact, then your official record is flawed. The record of the game (a 1 hitter by Galarraga)... as it stands now, is false. Feel free to extrapolate that argument to any historical context. The principle behind it is sound. The actual events in question should be recorded to reflect reality. If X, Y, and Z happened, that is what should be recorded. If you find, later on, that X was in fact W, then you change X to W because it is factually correct. If that shatters some ingrained illusion of what happened, good. It was an illusion.Ellipseshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04061702655686662457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post-18885937778867828332010-06-04T06:45:04.130-04:002010-06-04T06:45:04.130-04:00The idea of changing a call after the fact is cons...The idea of changing a call after the fact is consistent with how our society now perceives conviction and principle.<br /><br />People are so wishy-washy these days. Nobody wants to be accountable. Nobody wants to take a stand based upon principle or conviction. Far too many people just want to change things to make them feel better, make a better situation out of a bad one, recant a previous position because they don't want to defend a previous one, (and the list goes on).<br /><br />Dale is right. Done is done. Live with it. Trying to cover one mistake with another only leads less accountability. How many games this year could have calls that should be overturned? How about last year? Perhaps all the Barry Bonds records should be expunged, and everybody would feel vindicated about their personal thoughts of his use of drugs. <br /><br />All this talk of making changes is in the same vain as the discussions on the O-R board about textbooks in Texas. People have changed history often because they didn't like what it said. Revisionist history helps ease somebody's pain and discomfort on what really happened. Changing baseball calls is an attempt to help ease somebody's discomfort as well. To use Mike Tomlin's favorite phrase "It is what it is." (Hate that statement!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post-71824480600066308502010-06-04T06:29:04.503-04:002010-06-04T06:29:04.503-04:00Dale, I can't believe you're saying calls ...Dale, I can't believe you're saying calls can't be changed after the fact. Hockey changes calls after the fact. Basketball changes calls after the fact. Football changes calls after the fact. It's called instant replay. And whether it's five minutes after the fact or the day after the fact, I can't see the difference. Certainly, the commissioner is not going to be changing calls willy-nilly, but in the case of something as egregious as this, he does have that power. An instant-replay system in baseball can be set up easily enough. Allow the umpires to use it as they see fit, and give each team two replay requests per game. But make it a rule that if they're wrong on the first one, they lose the second one. That would make them think long and hard about using that first one. And I don't even want to hear about the effects on the flow of the game, because in baseball, the flow has already been killed by the ridiculous amount of time taken by pitchers and batters between pitches.Branthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10472711158045753698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post-22672345454291147692010-06-03T23:01:22.593-04:002010-06-03T23:01:22.593-04:00I completely disagree, Brant. The call is what it ...I completely disagree, Brant. The call is what it was. Can't change it after the fact.<br />If you do it in this case, where do you stop?Dale Lolleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13089003781188560287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post-33850428739659759952010-06-03T19:20:03.861-04:002010-06-03T19:20:03.861-04:00Big deal. Who cares? MLB is a mere shadow of its...Big deal. Who cares? MLB is a mere shadow of its former self. Look at the attendance figures. Look at the scandals involving drugs.<br /><br />So, an ump blows a call. Just because it happened with one remaining out in the ninth inning, it gets all kinds of publicity. It is only a game, folks. It is a game that is played by elementary-school aged kids, albeit on another level. Whether the pitcher pitches a no-hitter, whether the ump makes the right call, whether 20 home runs are hit in tonight's games, nothing will change. The sun will rise in the East tomorrow, the earth will rotate on its axis, people will die, infants will be born, people will go to work, people will collect welfare checks, people will buy fast food at the local eatery. It DOES NOT MATTER one iota. <br /><br />Put the blown call in the trash heap where it belongs, forget about whether the Commissioner is doing his job. Get on with life and do something significant, love another person like never before, do your job well and right. These are important matters. Getting to first base before the ball gets there is way down on the list of important matters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137997322301347949.post-11487027529286757352010-06-03T16:24:09.300-04:002010-06-03T16:24:09.300-04:00After watching the replay, I thought Joyce should ...After watching the replay, I thought Joyce should be fined and/or suspended for blowing the call that badly. But it was actually heartening to hear how both the umpire and pitcher handled the situation. Joyce stood up and took responsibility. Galarraga didn't pout on the field (like his teammates) and accepted Joyce's apology.<br /><br />Both of them showed a lot of sportsmanship for something that will/would've changed both of their lives.MJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862109705577881367noreply@blogger.com