Gallaraga AND Joyce may both become MORE respected because of all this

[Holtgetsback]

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Excuses, he could have made excuses as to why he got it wrong not argue that he did in fact get it wrong. People getting fired in the real world for screwing up that badly you say? How many executives from BP have been fired?

I stopped reading your post after reading this idiocy

[stealthyburrito]

Excuses, he could have made excuses as to why he got it wrong not argue that he did in fact get it wrong. People getting fired in the real world for screwing up that badly you say? How many executives from BP have been fired? Oh, I assure you there will be a sacrifical lamb but the big boys will not leave their big paychecks unless forced out for criminal wrong doing.

People make mistakes and blown calls are an unfortunate part of any business. Do they get fired? Should they get fired? No, only unless it is a chronic problem. If your contention is he shouldn't have made this mistake because it was such an important call then that would logically suggest umpires have control over all blown calls. The fact is a bad call can happen anywhere and at any time. I would further argue that the reason he made this error is because he was so intent on getting it right and not maintaining a bias against the hitter. Good intentions, bad results.

he said real world, they aren't apart of it either.

[Swinging Johnson]

I stopped reading your post after reading this idiocy

Ah, another captain of the debate team. Don't let the facts get in the way of a good argument. Remember Holt, SBR only gives you points for your first post of the day. No need to feel obliged to do more than you have to.

[Holtgetsback]

Ah, another captain of the debate team. Don't let the facts get in the way of a good argument. Remember Holt, SBR only gives you points for your first post of the day. No need to feel obliged to do more than you have to.

Any debate that compares Major League Baseball umpires to BP Executives is not one I want to be apart of. I guess you feel bad for BP too.


Thanks though

[Swinging Johnson]

Any debate that compares Major League Baseball umpires to BP Executives is not one I want to be apart of. I guess you feel bad for BP too.


Thanks though

You have a point, unfortunately your hair is covering it. Wow, you don't follow along very well do you? Hell, you admittedly can't even read entire posts.

Oh, and you're very welcome.

[Andy117]

disagree. Remember Braden's game, when a player (Don't remember his name) tried to bunt his way to first base deep in the game just to avoid a perfect game on the opposite team.

That was in the fifth inning, not exactly deep in the game.

[hoopster42]

Both guys have showed me a tremendous amount of class in all of this.

For Gallaraga not to go completely go off the handle on the bad call and not crying and blaming Joyce after the game really shows me alot about the young man.......and something that I would have never realized without the bad call.

On the other side of the coin, I was very impressed with how Joyce handled himself on the field of play AND after the game............

From this point on I will always be a big fan of both of these gentlemen.

completely agree with you on this, i felt this exact same way yesterday when i saw what both men had to say, class all around