The blown call

Everybody's talking about the blown call by that umpire last night that cost Armando Galarraga his perfect game last night. Apparently Commissioner Bud is actually considering overturning the call and awarding the guy a perfect game posthumously. That would be hilarious and it would really piss me off.

Why? Because an umpire cost me a perfect game back in '17 and if Bud is going to award Gallarragga the perfecto, he should give me one too.

Maybe you know the story about that perfect game. I was the starting pitcher, and the umpire, some douche named Brick Owens, called a ball four on a pitch that was totally over the plate. I was pissed, and then that douche started jawing at me, call me all sorts of names, so I confronted him and we got into a little scuffle. For no good reason, it was me who got thrown out of the game.

Well, ol' Ernie Shore came into the game in relief. The baserunner got thrown out stealing, and Ernie retired the next 26 hitters straight for a perfect game. The Lords of Baseball have since decided that it's not truly a perfecto because he didn't actually start the game, but that's just a technicality.

If Bud is going to overturn the Gallarragga call, then he needs to go back and call that batter out on called strike three. Then it would have been ME who would have retired all 27 batters in that game, not Ernie Shore. And it would have been MY name in the record books as one of the few guys who ever threw a perfecto.

Commissioner Bud: The world is waiting!