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re: Worst Missed/Blow Calls in Sports History
Posted on 1/21/19 at 10:54 am to JumpingTheShark
Posted on 1/21/19 at 10:54 am to JumpingTheShark
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Armando Galarraga’s perfect game that was fricked over by a shite ump who needed to be the center of attention...I don’t care that the ump apologized later, the pitcher got royally fricked.
First off, Joyce was a great ump. He was voted best umpire by a poll of MLB players. He made a bad call and he faced the media right after the game and admitted his mistake. He handled a professional mistake the way I hope any person would. He owned up to it and took full responsibility and didn't try to blame anyone else.
That said, Joyce missing that call is the best thing that ever happened to Galarraga. The imperfect game is famous and probably more famous than any perfect game other than Don Larsen's. Galarraga was out of baseball by 2012 but people will always remember him because of the missed call. No one remembers, say, Tom Browning's perfect game unless they are a die hard Reds fan.
Galarraga got the win and he achieved immortality, even more than he would have gotten if Joyce makes the correct call. And Joyce gave us a model on how people should behave when they publicly screw up.
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Posted on 1/21/19 at 11:01 am to Baloo
Yeah I’d take the perfect game, I didn’t even remember the pitchers name without googling it. 
Posted on 1/22/19 at 7:42 pm to Baloo
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First off, Joyce was a great ump. He was voted best umpire by a poll of MLB players. He made a bad call and he faced the media right after the game and admitted his mistake. He handled a professional mistake the way I hope any person would. He owned up to it and took full responsibility and didn't try to blame anyone else.
That said, Joyce missing that call is the best thing that ever happened to Galarraga. The imperfect game is famous and probably more famous than any perfect game other than Don Larsen's. Galarraga was out of baseball by 2012 but people will always remember him because of the missed call. No one remembers, say, Tom Browning's perfect game unless they are a die hard Reds fan.
Galarraga got the win and he achieved immortality, even more than he would have gotten if Joyce makes the correct call. And Joyce gave us a model on how people should behave when they publicly screw up.
They said on WWL that MLB finally fixed it in 2016, so he officially gets credit for it.
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