Give It To Him!!!!

So I feel I need to weigh in on the perfect game thrown by Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers earlier this week. Notice how I wrote "perfect game"...because it was!!! For those who don't know what I'm talking about, let me summarize. On June 2nd I'm sitting in my living room watching the Jays. During an inning change there comes a report that Armando Galarraga was in the eighth inning of a perfect game. Laptop is now open and I'm watching the Detroit game live on mlb.com. Down to the last at bat, Galarraga has retired 26 batters in a row. Jason Donald comes up for the Indians. The count goes to one ball and one strike when Donald hits a ground ball to the right of first baseman Miguel Cabrerra which pulls him off the bag. Galarraga covers the bag, receives the throw from Cabrerra, puts his right foot down on the bag a good step ahead of Donald....and umpire Jim Joyce calls him safe!!! Unbelievable!!! This umpire's blown call just took a perfect game away from a young guy, 28, who has never, or would never again, know the pure joy of what he had done. Perfect games in baseball are rare. There have only been 20 of them since 1880....that's 130 years folks!! It's much more rare than a hole in one in golf. (Strange enough, there have been two other perfect games thrown this year: Dallas Braden on May 9th and Roy "Doc" Halladay on May 29th). So, after the game, umpire Joyce takes a look at the replay that millions have already seen. Sure enough he admits to blowing the call. He apologizes, Galarraga understands, everybody goes on with their lives....
BUT WAIT A SECOND!!! The league is sent the tape for review for a possible reversal of the call, giving Galarraga the perfect game he deserves. Bud Selig, the commissioner of baseball, says they will not overturn the call but will take a look at using instant replay for such things in the future. What bullshit! They have the proof in their hands, the umpire said he blew the call, the hit made absolutely no difference in the outcome of the game (the Tigers were up 3-0) so why not reverse the call?? Some people talk of the purity of the game, how it's always been about human error on the part of the umps (who, by the way, get well over 90% of close calls correct!), how stats would have to be reversed and asterisks placed beside Galarraga's name, and blah, blah, blah. Jason Donald is a rookie hitting .250 this year...do you think he'd care if they took away a hit from his end of year totals?? I highly doubt it. Do you think anybody would care if Cabrerra got another assist on his yearly fielding totals?? Not bloody likely. Do you think Galarraga wants to be known as the 21st pitcher in the history of the Major Leagues to have thrown a perfect game?? Fuckin' right he does...and he should!!!