Armando Galarraga got hosed last night. This is not in dispute and there are better sources for information on this topic than Furriners... so I will not rehash it here.
However, I would like to add a few comments to what is already out there.
One, for those who didn't watch the game, I would like to point out that Jim Joyce (who people like Tim Kurkjian are defending as one of the best umpires in major league baseball) also got a call wrong in the 8th inning! With two outs, Johnny Damon hit an infield grounder where the throw beat him to first but Joyce called him safe. It led to two runs as Magglio Ordonez followed with a hit that drove in Austin Jackson and Damon scored on a throwing error by Shin-Soo Choo. This was, obviously, not a historically awful call as was the call a half inning later - but it could have easily decided the game given that it was 1-0 game before the Ordonez hit.
Also, for the "I Call Bullshit" moment of the game, we had this exchange from Tigers announcers Mario Impemba and Rod Allen regarding the retirement of Ken Griffey, Jr.:
Mario: "(E)verybody has their opinion of who the best player they've seen play and I know there are a lot of great ones but I still maintain Griffey, for me, was the best overall talent that I've seen play when healthy."
Rod: "There is not a lot of people that would even argue with you on that."
BULLSHIT!
Love 'em or Hate 'em... well, let's face it... we all HATE him but Barry Bonds would have the support of "a lot of people". If Mario had qualified it by saying that Griffey was the best that we presume was clean... fine. But as an unqualified statement, to say that not a lot of people would argue with that is bullshit.
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