Catching Up

SPORTING GOODS

The filter at "work" has reared its ugly head again, and so I have to blog at home when most of the events of the day have already occurred.

Be that as it may, I still feel bad for Armando Galarraga coming so close to perfection Tuesday night.

It's not hard to see why [umpire Jim] Joyce's Wikipedia page was vandalized within seconds or why FireJimJoyce.com sprung [sic] up soon after that.

Galarraga couldn't have been more diplomatic about the whole thing, and Joyce, of course, was beside himself. There's really no decent resolution to the whole thing. One guy was masterful; one guy screwed up royally, and life will go on.

The thing that's been kind of hidden in the fiasco is the fact that this is the third perfecto this season. That's almost 15% of all the perfect games pitched in the entire history of major league baseball! I can't help but wonder if the pitchers have once again gotten appreciably better than the hitters and if major changes to the rules à la 1969 are in order.