Today in Baseball

There were two HUGE, HUMONGOUS, stories out of the MLB yesterday, and I want to talk about them.

First, an almost perfect game was thrown yesterday as Detroits' Armando Gallaraga, but was blown by umpire Jim Joyce. There are a few things that I'd like to mention. First, when the call was made, you can see Gallaraga's reaction....now I've never heard of the Venezuelan till yesterday, but I'm a fan, because where most baseball players would throw a hissy fit, he didn't, and actually after the game, didn't have any harsh words for the umpire that kept him out of baseball history books, to be remembered forever. Thats class.

Jim Joyce blew the call. He knew it after the game. So what does he do? He goes to the Tigers clubhouse, stares eye to eye with Gallaraga, and apologizes. He fessed up to his mistake, and confronted Gallaraga like a man should. That's Class.

What isn't class, is Bud FREAKING Selig. What a DOUCHE!!! This could easily be prevented if, oh I don't know, he IMPLEMENTS 21st CENTURY INSTANT REPLAY. He is worried of it slowing down the game....BULLS**T! How many batters adjust their batting gloves after every single pitch? Why not get rid of that crap to speed up the game, then instant replay isn't a big deal! Because Bud Selig is the worst commissioner of all time of any and all sports.

He is willing to ruin history, and ruin the chance of this young man's perfect game. It's not like Gallaraga was 10 outs away from the Perfect Game...THAT WAS the last out. Ridiculous.

On another sad note, my favourite ball player of all time retired yesterday. Junior is the man. I was sad to see him retire, but I think he was one of the VERY slim few who played in the 90's-00's the correct way. He was a good teammate, good community guy, and great player. (Oh what could have been.) His statement he released sums up Ken Griffey Jr. the person:

"I feel that without enough occasional starts to be sharper coming off the bench, my continued presence as a player would be an unfair distraction to my teammates and their success as a team is what the ultimate goal should be"

That is class, something great leaders have, and horrible leaders (like Bud Selig) lack. Maybe Selig should take a few pages out of the much younger Roger Goodell's book. He could learn how to run a league.