<p>Now ESPN is reporting that Selig will not overturn the call.</p>
<p>Jim Joyce was the umpire that blew the call yesterday and he was behind the plate at today’s Cleveleand-Detroit game. Galarraga took the lineup card out to him. Joyce was visibly upset and on verge of tears. I thought it was a class act by both men.</p>
<p>I can understand why a call can’t be reversed after the fact. Maybe, if they had stopped the game right then and there, it could have been, but if you allow things to change afterwards, it could affect everything that happened after that. Let’s say in this case that the batter after the missed out had hit a home run and tied the game or gone ahead to win, can we reverse that?</p>
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<p>I’m sure he’d rather have the perfect game.</p>
<p>3bm103–no, then we couldn’t. I think it would be feasible because no fact of substance happened after the call. It would have to be a one time judment call by the comissioner, which he is allowed to make (though apparently won’t.)</p>
<p>Galarraga can take some consolation in the fact that he’ll be better remembered for this than he would have been for the perfect game (especially given the two other perfect games already this year, as well as the one last year). Just as Harvey Haddix is still famous for what happened with his “perfect game” in 1959, more so than if he’d actually been credited with one.</p>
<p>Umpires calls (right and wrong) are part of the fabric of the game of baseball.</p>
<p>If Selig reversed this call then all safe/out calls would have to be reviewable in every game.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it will be reversed or not. But if it IS, it will bring instant replay to more than home-run calls and slow down the game even further. And I wonder what should the penalty be for not prevailing in a review request?</p>
<p>If they do bring instant replay to baseball, I sure hope that it has to be decided BEFORE play progresses. That’s the problem with baseball; depending on the call, play can continue in one way or another. You can’t go back and undue what players have done. Last night’s game was an example of when they should take a time out and rule on the play, because action had come to a stop anyway, but if it continues, then I don’t think the decision should be allowed to change.</p>
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<p>I think a lot of people want that anyway, at least to an extent similar to Tennis.</p>
<p>If MLB were serious about pace of play it could do what Cricket does - fine players for not playing fast enough. Ideally there should be about 2 pitches per minute. The MLBPA probably wouldn’t like that though.</p>