On the lighter side.....

[Palehorse]

such as?

For example:

The Yankees beat the Orioles 5-4 in Game 1 of the 1996 ALCS when 12-year-old fan Jeffrey Maier reaches over the fence and catches Derek Jeter's flyball to right before Baltimore right fielder Tony Tarasco can make a play. Umpire Rich Garcia, who has run out to the right-field wall, fails to call fan interference on the play and rules the ball a game-tying homer. The Yanks go on to win the game on Bernie Williams' homer in the 11th.

History is filled with a ton of bad calls by umpires that ended up negatively impacting the game. . . and stats. . .

[Palehorse]

In ALCS Game 4 last year, within a span of 11 batters, umpires Dale Scott and Tim McClelland blew three calls so badly that it was beyond belief!

Scott called Nick Swisher safe on a pickoff play at second base in which he was tagged on the hands (he was diving headfirst) before the base even appeared in the replay. McClelland took a run off the board when he called Swisher out on appeal for leaving third base early, when replays clearly showed he was wrong.

Then McClelland somehow called Robinson Cano safe after he was tagged when he was standing still, two feet off third base. (McClelland, who is a very good and respected umpire, owned up to his mistakes after the game.)

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/tom_verducci/10/21/five.cuts/index.html

[LOsborne]

I really don't support instant replay in baseball. I'm too much of a traditionalist (too many years of playing the sport on several levels, I guess).

Just gotta suck it up when you get the short end of the stick on a bad call -- and it WILL happen, what with umpires being human and all.

I'm with you, FTW. Bad calls happen. Applause to Mr. Joyce for the apology, but he is paid to call 'em as he sees 'em -- and that's how he saw that one at the time.

Besides, Galarraga will probably still get mentioned in the trivia books -- and with an asterisk! Woo-hoo!

[Henry Hawk]

For example:

The Yankees beat the Orioles 5-4 in Game 1 of the 1996 ALCS when 12-year-old fan Jeffrey Maier reaches over the fence and catches Derek Jeter's flyball to right before Baltimore right fielder Tony Tarasco can make a play. Umpire Rich Garcia, who has run out to the right-field wall, fails to call fan interference on the play and rules the ball a game-tying homer. The Yanks go on to win the game on Bernie Williams' homer in the 11th.

History is filled with a ton of bad calls by umpires that ended up negatively impacting the game. . . and stats. . .

I am talking STRICTLY in a situation like Galarraga, reversing THIS call does not impact the game what so ever.....but it DOES right a wrong....I think the Commish has the power to overturn a very  uinque situation....it does NOT mean or set any precedent for games like you just mentinoned...where reversing a call DOES impact the results of a game.....

[Palehorse]

I am talking STRICTLY in a situation like Galarraga, reversing THIS call does not impact the game what so ever.....but it DOES right a wrong....I think the Commish has the power to overturn a very  uinque situation....it does NOT mean or set any precedent for games like you just mentinoned...where reversing a call DOES impact the results of a game.....

But it does open the possibility of dialog surrounding the possibility no? (And legal action by proxy).

[Henry Hawk]

But it does open the possibility of dialog surrounding the possibility no? (And legal action by proxy).

You may be right in this 'sue happy' world that we live in, but I think THAT those type of decisions should be left up to the commisioner....and in this case, he should take a wrong and make it right...............especially since ALL parties are in agreement that there was a mistake........(players and the ump)

[Palehorse]

You may be right in this 'sue happy' world that we live in, but I think THAT those type of decisions should be left up to the commisioner....and in this case, he should take a wrong and make it right...............especially since ALL parties are in agreement that there was a mistake........(players and the ump)

And when you consider that the league is responsible for the oversight of thousands of "workers", the majority of which are multi-millionaires, just what do you think the odds are that there will be a line of them wanting to sue to get their stats boosted?

Naw, leave it alone and avoid the costs of money and time, and use both to incorporate an instant replay policy that makes sense and doesn't negatively impact the game moving forward.

[Henry Hawk]

again, we gotta agee to disagree....

I say have some balls, and be the man, and make the right call.....   ...and move on.

[The Troll]

again, we gotta agee to disagree....

I say have some balls, and be the man, and make the right call.....   ...and move on.

  Henry, please don't talk about having balls and being a man. 

  But on the bad call, let's make it easy.  IT WAS WRONG.  NOT DOUBT, NOT RIGHT.  Make it right and fair.  To hell with all of that bullshit of past history.  Do what is right.  The man had a no hitter.  FACT, I've seen the pictures.

[Henry Hawk]

Okay, Keeping on a baseball theme, did you hear about this kid for the Washington Nationals?  a 100 mph fast ball?....and a a physics-defying curveball?...set a a Nationals team record with 14 strikouts?

Strasburg, a 21-year-old San Diego native, arrived at Nationals Park 364 days after being selected with the first overall pick of the 2009 draft, nearly 10 months after signing the most lucrative contract in the history of baseball's draft -- $15.1 million -- and 58 days after making his professional debut as a member of the Class AA Harrisburg Senators in Altoona, Pa. Those 58 days, as Strasburg abused minor league batters at two different levels across New York and Pennsylvania, only served to grow his legend and heighten anticipation among Nationals fans.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/08/AR2010060805223_pf.html

THIS is what baseball needs, a shot in the arm with some NEW and exciting talent....

[JANADELE]

Jay Leno:

The only commercial airline in Iraq, Iraqi Airways, folded this week. The CEO says the company could not survive in a market where everybody in the country is on the No-Fly list.     

[The Troll]

Jay Leno:

The only commercial airline in Iraq, Iraqi Airways, folded this week. The CEO says the company could not survive in a market where everybody in the country is on the No-Fly list.     

  Now that was a good one, keep them coming.   Welcome Newbie Janadele you're in the the best forum on the zone.  Hang on we got a lot of weird characters here in the depths of the Unknown Zone. 

  The Troll