Favorite Sports: Galarraga's imPerfect Game

I am not a huge baseball fan, but I do love my Tiger's. I was as upset as anyone this morning watching the replays continuously streaming of Donald, Galarraga and Joyce. But I was even more very disappointed by the Commissioner's refusal to reverse the call on yesterday's game. EVERYONE could see that Donald was out at first after a ground ball; everyone that is, but the one person who mattered, Joyce.

Joyce, who was my arch enemy for a few hours this afternoon, is actually an ump in his twenty-second year in the league. He is very well respected and I have to admit that I even still think he is a decent human being after watching his interviews after the game. It was a bad call and he admitted it. There was and is nothing more that he could do other than admit that and apologize. However, his bad call did cost Galarraga his perfect game, what would have been the 21st perfect game in the history of baseball. Selig, the commissioner of the baseball league, had the opportunity to reverse the call, but then opted not to...and that is where my fury with him and baseball in general starts. The league refuses to move the game into the 21st century.

All of the players obviously have. With each month comes a new player who admits to having used steroids during one of their peak and record-breaking years. It is outrageous that players like Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Mark McGwire and hundreds of others take advantage of the latest drugs and technologies, but when it comes to allowing plays to be reviewed with technological advances, people storm away saying baseball should remain as is and untouched.

So there is my rant. I will leave baseball for all those old school folk out there who love the American game and what it stands for. I know many people who love the game and whose heart rates skip a beach watching the bases become loaded or a base stolen. For me though, I will sit through one baseball game, preferably at Comerica Park, and cheer for my Tiger's because I love Detroit sports, but the only time my heart may start racing is when I hear that the game is changing with the times. Galarraga, you deserve that perfect game and definitely the Corvette you got today. I will be watching out for it on Woodward Ave.