Tiger Beat: Time Heals All Wounds? I Hope So

Well, I slept on it and here's what I have to say:
I am proud to be a Tiger's fan.

There is nothing else to say. Galarraga, Leyland, the Tiger's Organization in general have handled this as well as any organization possibly could. They took it. Because you can't change the call. You can't go back and give the pitcher the out. Selig won't/ probably shouldn't go down that road. So what do you do? You say "That's baseball." Crazy things happen. That's what makes it endlessly watchable. And that's what Leyland did. "Joyce felt that [Donald] beat it. You have to accept that, and we do accept it. You don't like it tonight, but the season will go on. It's a shame, but that's part of the game."

It's also a complete travesty. I mean, what does a guy have to do? Apparently get there a little sooner. Or let the second baseman make the play (although Guillen seemed to be jogging over to that ball and probably wouldn't have gotten Donald it looked like). But that's not how it went down. It was what it was. "You guys like me all watched the TV and saw the replays," Galarraga said, "and for any pitcher in any league anywhere, that was a perfect game. When you watch the replays, it was totally an out. There's no way he can call that safe. That's what made me sad. I can't help it. I really can't help it."

As for James Joyce, the guy feels terrible. I mean, he should though right? Everyone agrees he probably feels worse than anyone else, but shouldn't he? I mean the guy BLEW THE CALL. He admits it. Even if he thought it was close he blew it. He should feel terrible. It puts Selig in an interesting position to change the call, when the umpire admits he got it wrong AND it was nationally televised and anyone, including women, all know the guy was out. But you can't right? I wanted to punch a hole through the wall I was so mad. I can't imagine what Jackson (who made an awesome catch for the first out in the ninth) or Cabrera who made a pretty good play at the end must feel like. It was a team effort this almost perfect game (I mean Galarraga only had 3 K's... AND he only threw 88 pitches in the game, 67 for strikes!)Like Leyland said though, the season continues. We move on. We know it was a perfect game and that's all that should really matter right? Galarraga said after the game, he was going to be able to show his son that he threw a perfect game once, maybe not in the record books, but on television, which is all that really mattered. And he was right.

I'm proud to be a Tiger's fan, perfect game or not.