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Tag: Tigers

20 Times Before

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Thu Jun 03, 2010 at 07:29:49 AM EST
Tags: Baseball, Tigers, Bad Call, Perfect Game, Armando Galarraga, Jim Joyce (all tags)

Only 20 times previously, has a perfect game been thrown in Major League Baseball. Two of those times happening this year. Dallas Braden and Roy Halladay within the last 30 days found themselves with that special achievement and a historic high even some of the greatest have never reached.

Indeed, history has denied to most pitchers, that great opportunity to stand as a part of the few who could deal out a perfect match in the American Pastime. But it wasn't history who denied it to Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga last night, but rather a poor call by a veteran official Jim Joyce, who found after reviewing the footage how bad the biggest call of his life went:

"I just cost the kid a perfect game," said Joyce , who personally apologized to the pitcher. "I thought he beat the throw. I was convinced he beat the throw until I was the replay. It was the biggest call of my career."

MLB might well use this moment in time to re-examine its policy on replay.

While the last thing we want to see is a constant stopping of the game to see if a foot was on the bag, a slide makes it on time or a tag is made, the fact remains that we have the technology, and the integrity of the game is paramount. Perhaps a single challenge per game, that wouldn't change the nature of the event, but would allow such a career affecting mistake to be challenged before it becomes a weight around the neck of an otherwise decent umpire like Joyce.

To be sure, Armando Galarraga DID pitch a perfect game, but the result is official, the system was not.

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Sleep deprivation, mixed emotions and an open(ish) thread

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Wed May 06, 2009 at 06:44:27 AM EST
Tags: Bing, Detroit, Granholm, Cherry, deficit, Cockrel, Wings, Tigers, Rapids, taxes (all tags)

Talk about your mixed emotions. On the one hand, the Silver Line nonsense failed here in Grand Rapids, sparing taxpayers well over one-hundred million dollars for another empty bus line. Which is awesome. Props to Grand Rapidians for getting one right.

But on the other hand, the Wings got robbed last night. Robbed.

I know, as I sit in front of the television at 1AM when any of my teams are out west, that I'm going to regret it in the morning but when they actually win it's a great feeling. A great, currently absent feeling. A premature whistle? Are you serious? Oh well. It isn't like these are the Stanley Cup Playoffs or anything.

Besides, good times are back in the D again in spite of NHL referees, after voters hit the polls and elected a brand spanking new mayor. The Detroit News reports that Dave Bing will be the guy steering the Motor City into the future.

"What we will bring ... is efficiency, transparency, honesty and integrity back to the mayor's office," (said Bing).
Cockrel, who led in the polls, lost to a first-time politician despite the backing of nearly every powerful union in the city and matching Bing in fundraising in a race that cost more than $2 million. He thanked his staff at a banquet hall in southwest Detroit, pledged his support to Bing and conceded at 11:30 p.m.
"You have not seen the last of me," Cockrel said.
He challenged Bing, who moved last fall from Franklin for the race, to get to know the city.
"Hang out with the brothers in front of the liquor store, drinking 40s out of paper bags. .. Get to know that. Get to understand and know the people you'll be representing."

Or, you know... don't. I'd actually feel a heck of a lot better about the future of Michigan's biggest city if the Mayor weren't on the street drinking 40s out of paper bags.

Read on...

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