Do I Even Need To Write This?
by Jeff Sullivan on Jun 2, 2010 5:59 PM PDT
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For the longest time, we've been saying that umpires, sans instant replay, have the potential to ruin something really important. And tonight, Jim Joyce changed history.
It's time to move forward. It's time to make things better.
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Absolutely awful.
The only guys in the world not allowed to look at the replay are the guys who need it most.
I wonder if Jim Joyce changed his mind about replay tonight.
I still can't believe it. I have no vesting interest other than history, and I feel like I got robbed.
I fucking hate you Mariners
Can't they appeal the call?
I mean, I know they never listen, but couldn’t they actually listen this once?
According to Jon Heyman
Joyce is one of the best umps in the MLB. This is horrible. I used to believe that there was a need for a human element. Not after this.
Right now I'm dreaming of Carl Crawford. Maybe next year...(or this year at the trade deadline)...
Completely and utterly unacceptable.
Okay anti-replay crowd, you have no more ammo. It finally happened. The human element of the game that you hold so dear blew a perfect game and cost a player his shot at history.
by BrianL on Jun 2, 2010 6:02 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
He lives in the NW too
Apparently lives in Oregon but not from Oregon.
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I'm actually sick to my stomach right now
I cannot believe that happened. If that had happened to a Mariner pitcher I might have gone postal.
I'm impressed the DET fans didn't throw crap at Joyce
He’d better hire an armed guard for, I don’t know, forever.
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
Seriously, I'm completely disgusted.
I have no interest in watching baseball right now, knowing something like this can happen.
Absolutely unbelievable.
This was always possible!
Where you have been? What sport have you been watching?
Seeing it actually happen is completely different than knowing it possibly could happen.
I watched a perfect game today and an MLB employee took that away from me for no acceptable reason.
This angers me.
This is like deciding to never drive a car again after years of doing it because somebody crashed into you one time
I want to poop at your house - Thingray
People often don't want to drive their cars for a little while after getting into an accident
He never said he wouldn’t ever watch baseball again
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
Or it'd be like not wanting to drive in a car right after a friend of yours died in a car accident.
Which is reasonable
My thinking's really that flawed?
I didn’t realize I was going out on a limb or anything by bringing this up.
Well, I think I see what Joyce saw
It looks like the ball is coming out a bit of his glove when he catches it.
Also, when he made the call, it looked like he was going to call him out but changed his mind at the last second.
It's not like he scooped the ball off the ground
There was no bobbling, the ball obviously didn’t drop out of the glove. Unbelievable.
This is literally the only thing that could have upstaged Griffey's retirement
short of somebody’s death, I guess.
That could follow!
I fucking hate you Mariners
I don't think Junior minds at all, honestly
He’s never seemed like the type that wanted a whole bunch of attention
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by Griffin Cooper on Jun 2, 2010 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
We need one more person named Jeff to be the tiebreaker
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by Griffin Cooper on Jun 2, 2010 6:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks man
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by Griffin Cooper on Jun 2, 2010 6:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Somebody important's death
If Joe Mather would have died that wouldn’t have taken precedence, but if Pujols would have that may have
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by thehemogoblin on Jun 2, 2010 6:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Or, if Pujols retired.
At least Griffey’s was expected.
I can't resist clicking "Rec" when I see a post with four [of them] already.
by thehemogoblin on Jun 2, 2010 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Wouldn't that just be hilarious/sad?
Right now I'm dreaming of Carl Crawford. Maybe next year...(or this year at the trade deadline)...
Because Snell sucks.
Right now I'm dreaming of Carl Crawford. Maybe next year...(or this year at the trade deadline)...
Never mind
Right now I'm dreaming of Carl Crawford. Maybe next year...(or this year at the trade deadline)...
So does Dallas Braden and Armando Galarraga
The perfect game fairy comes to a decision on whom to bless that we can’t understand.
I was listening to the Detroit audio feed on my iPhone At Bat app
The announcer thought that he was out and went nuts with his call, and then went even more nuts when he realized that he was called safe. It was actually pretty entertaining
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Maybe Jim Joyce had alterior motives.
Perhaps he blew the call in order to make a point, and begin the transition to robots.
That wouldn't make much sense
Unless…
FUCK THE MARINERS!
by Fuckmikereilly on Jun 2, 2010 6:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm just trying to be the first conspiracy theorist.
I’ve never gotten to play that role in my life
Maybe he just got "switched on" in that moment...
And he is one of the Final Five.
I tried to imagine how pissed I'd be if that was Felix.
I would have killed some one. No doubt.
George Brett got his Home Run back!!
The Royals eventually won the “Pine Tar” game. All be it nearly a month later, none the less there is a precedent for this just not from Selig. So while he’ll never have that true “Holy fuck I just threw a Perfect Game” celebration it should at least be added that he is now the only pitcher in MLB history to have thrown a 28 out Perfect Game.
"It's a light bat"
This is why baseball is the best sport on the planet...
not because it is great some umpire missed a call and cost some dude a perfect game (can you name all the people who have thrown perfect games? probably not), but because, like life, baseball has a habit of hitting you in the nuts some times. It is unfair, unjust and can be downright cruel. For this, I applaud you, baseball.
The worst part is that he will probably never come that close again.
Did he run over Joyce’s dog that week?
by Nobody Anonymous on Jun 2, 2010 10:07 PM PDT reply actions
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