Just watched the replay. The reaction by the Cleveland hitter was interesting. 
He knew he was out.

There has to be some replay. Challenge flags maybe but something.
Missing a perfect game by a full step just seems too silly not to have some 
mechanism to overturn.

Having said that, I want a replay mechanism that doesn't slow the game down. 
They need to get
games to be quicker not slower.





On Jun 3, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Tom Salemi wrote:

> Well, yeah. There are 20 perfect games in baseball history. 
> 
> But the ultimate measure of an enforcement mechanism is whether or not it 
> disrupted the competitive balance of a game. It did not.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Ray Salemi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I put the perfect game is much rarer than a win.  I was watching and I was 
> psyched that I'd get to see the play.  Nobody would be bitching if that call 
> cost them the game.  
> 
> So this is much worse than if it cost the team the game.
> 
> I think the ump should have given the perfect game the benefit of the doubt.  
> But it seems that Joyce had no doubts about the call until he saw the replay.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Tom Salemi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Two points, first this error--while HUGE--did not impact the outcome of the 
> game. Just robbed someone of a personal and historic achievement.
>  
> Second, I'd be fine with some limited instant reply on the bases. I just 
> don't like the idea of a computer calling balls and strikes. It'd be handing 
> over too much control of a game to a computer with a TV camera.
>  
> There's a difference between using technology to support the umps and using 
> it to replace them. I can support the former, but not the latter.
>  
> 
> 
>  
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Ray Salemi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was watching the play and thinking, "I hope this isn't a close play that 
> comes down to the Ump."  My bad.  
> 
> Someone will have to tell my why having umps making "human mistakes" adds to 
> the game.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Tom Salemi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I once attended a Cape Cod League game where a Yarmouth pitcher was denied 
> his second consecutive no-hitter by a blown call at 1b.
>  
> And I thought THAT up was a big douchebag for blowing it. 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Larry Rupp <[email protected]> wrote:
> The heat has been turned up uncomfortably now - instant reply can not be 
> ignored any longer. 
> 
> Sent from Larry's mobile device
> 
> On Jun 2, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Matt & Olga McSorley <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> After Jim Joyce's catastrophe tonight, I'm off the fence and on board with 
>> Ray. Time for instant replay.
>>  
>> -- Matt
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