So for Gallaraga to simply smile in disbelief as his place in history evaporated before his eyes was absolutely transcendent. I hope that much of the non-sports media (aside from Olbermann, apparnetly) are focusing on that. Listening to his interview afterwards, as he was talking about sitting down one day with his son to show him the game, really moved me.

Last night I took my daughter to the computer and we watched several YouTube clips of the game and the aftermath. We talked about how officials make mistakes, just like players make errors or miss shots or make bad passes (she’s a basketball player), and we talked about the importance of owning up to your mistakes, like Jim Joyce did, and forgiving others, like Gallaraga did. She got it.

http://tinyurl.com/27bcqzc

Selig, as much as I hate to defend him, can’t overturn the Donald call, because he’d have to overturn this one, too. That would set a terrible precedent.

Let’s see, off the top of my head, other perfectos:
Cy Young, Sandy Koufax, Mark Buerhle, Dallas Braden, Roy Halliday, Len Barker, Don Larsen, David Wells, David Cone. Moose coming in at 8.2.2.

This is why I love baseball. There’s always a chance for a perfect game. What other sport can have a perfect game? Shutouts happen all the time (and a basketball shutout isn’t perfect, just a sad indictment that one team is utterly inferior, a game that should not have been scheduled)

That’s well said.

As others have pointed out, while the game was still underway, I wouldn’t say there was a surplus of good vibes. But in the end I agree this becomes transcendent.

Boy he missed the hell out of that call. I really think he choked. Un-clutch!

Go Go Lakers!!

[0] good writin, AB. Love it. I read it to my wife, and she said she still thinks Selig should overturn the call, and declare him the 21st perfecto, We talked awhile, and agree that there will never be a missed call or perfect game discussion again where this game isn’t brought up. I challenged her to name the 20 pitchers. She got like 3 and I came up with 6. No one will ever forget this, though. For decades, dads will tell their sons about the game where the 27th out was denied on a bad call. Poetic.

6th Round?!?! That’s amazing. Represent, Represent!

Shoot your guns in the air! Er, or something like that.

WHOO HOO!!!!!!

Kelenna AZUBUIKE

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A night of partying with two women at a bar and in his Tampa, Florida, hotel room allegedly cost the Staten Island Yankees pitching coach his $10,000 World Series championship ring and two cell phones—one which was issued by the Yankees.

Patrick (Pat) Daneker, 34, reported the items missing around 4 a.m. on May 30, said Tampa police.

According to police, Daneker, who has been the Baby Bombers’ pitching coach since 2008, was having drinks with at the Blue Martini Bar with another coach, Carlos Chantres. Chantres, who was the Staten Island squad’s pitching coach in 2006, most recently served in 2009 as pitching coach for the Tampa-based Gulf Coast Yankees in the Rookie League.

As cops tell it, the two men met two young women, whom Chantres allegedly knew, at the bar.

They had drinks, and the women, who were wearing “short mini skirts,” wound up with Daneker at his Holiday Inn Express hotel room.

The hotel clerk told police that Daneker and the women arrived in white taxi van around 3 a.m. Daneker then got money from the hotel ATM.

Daneker, who was “extremely intoxicated,” told police he and the women “mess[ed] around.” Afterward, he had a lapse in memory and couldn’t recall what happened. The Cherry Hill, N.J., resident also told police he didn’t remember going to the ATM.

The clerk told cops the women left the motel around 3:15 a.m. without Daneker.