Everyone else is praising Bud Selig for making the right decision and not overturning the horrid call by umpire Jim Joyce that cost Detroit's Armando Gallaraga a perfect game. I have a little different opinion on the situation.
Bud Selig is a complete idiot. He responds to the situation by issuing a statement saying "due to this and other recent events we will look into expanding the replay system".
Analogy: If there is a house burning down do you wait for someone to die before you start putting the fire out? NO. Why? Because its common sense, its something that is easy to foresee, and you have the means and capability to do so! It's not the old days anymore where you have to call in the fire brigrade and throw buckets of water on the fire. Every other city around is using fire trucks! Get with the program Selig.
Everyone knew that someday there would be a blown call that costs a team a game in the post season, and there would be "nothing we can do about it because the rules are the rules." Bud Selig put out the fire. Do what the other professional sports have done and institute a replay system. The players are for it, the fans are for it, and the umpires are for it.
You're an idiot for taking this long. You're an idiot for actually waiting for something like this to happen to "think" about installing a replay system.
Luckily the situation ended up being a very classy one, with both Jim Joyce and Armando Gallaraga treating the issue with pure professionalism. Let's hope Selig doesn't see this positive ending and think that nothing needs changing.
Greg "Put Pete in the hall!" R.
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