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re: Worst Missed/Blow Calls in Sports History

Posted on 1/22/19 at 5:17 pm to
Posted by ecb
Member since Jul 2010
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Posted on 1/22/19 at 5:17 pm to
Hand of God and is not close
Posted by Buckeye06
Member since Dec 2007
23121 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 5:18 pm to
I mean yea I'm a homer, but people have gone back and said it was correct too

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The Big 12 office reviewed the play and declared Porter's call right on four counts. On the fourth-down play, Duncan said, Miami cornerback Glenn Sharpe committed four fouls on Ohio State flanker Chris Gamble: holding first, then blocking Gamble's move to the inside (interference), then another hold and finally another interference.


They said he fouled him 4 times on one play. Now a lot of that is "that happens every play" but it wasn't an obviously bad one
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
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Posted on 1/22/19 at 7:42 pm to
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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.
Posted by pkloa
Member since Jan 2011
2265 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 8:20 pm to
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Instead Penn State gets a W and goes on to win the championship
Wrong season. Penn State won the championship over Georgia in 1982 (1983 Sugar Bowl)
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