This might be THE worst call of all-time.
Jim Joyce should be fined $10 Million Dollars, permanently banned from Baseball, and beaten to death in the public square.
A once in a lifetime opportunity for a pitcher and and this waste of donor organs blows it on a call lke THAT?!
To channel Al Capone: I want him DEAD! I want his family DEAD! I want his HOUSE burned to the GROUND!
I don't care how many times this asshole gotit right, this ONE CALL renders his entire career a colossal joke. He is now the Bill Buckner of Umpires. Actually, my apologies to Mister Buckner, his error was nowhere NEAR this level. So on second thought, calling Joyce that is an high insult to BUCKNER.
Baseball should have instant replay, period. What the hell, if the call stands then eject the challenging manager. But this is a level of incompetence rivalled only by BP's Crisis Response Team.
Next time Galaraga throws to First, with Joyce making the call, he just just drill him right in the back of the head.
What a fucking asshole. Armando Galarraga threw a PERFECT GAME tonight. I don't care what the history books say. They SHOULD say "Jim Joyce is a useless piece of shit umpire who has no business putting on the uniforn unless he's going to a halloween party."
Congratulation on your perfect game, Armando. May Jim Joyce burn naked in the 9th circle of hell, the incompetent, half-blind, fucknut.
Un-be-fucking-lievable.
Tell us how you REALLY feel!
ReplyDeleteI'm a casual baseball fan, and off the top of my head I can only recall a few of the pitchers who have thrown a perfect game -- Larsen, Bunning, and that guy who was tripping. After a while, I'll probably forget about Halladay's perfect game, too.
ReplyDeleteGalarraga, OTOH, has been immortalized.
I'm not sure how well instant replay would work in baseball games, which a lot of people complain are too long as is, but I don't think instant replay has improved officiating in football. In fact, I think it has made things worse, with officials on the field second-guessing themselves, and with replay officials making the wrong call at an astonishingly high rate. Plus it disrupts the natural flow of play.
ReplyDeleteDD - Sorry, that really was beneath me.
ReplyDeleteCraig - Good point about the game actually being MORE memorable this way. I disagree with you about instant replay in general, but you do bring up some very valid points. I'm an engineer however, and we just never stop tinkering, and never stop trying to use technology to make things better. :) That's my bias and I'm sticking to it! LOL
Thank you both for your comments.