I'm sure you all have seen plenty on this story. A first base umpire, Jim Joyce, blew a call on the last out of a possible perfect game for Detroit pitcher Armando Galarraga. Runner was clearly out on the replay and he called him safe costing Galarraga a perfect game.
The coverage afterwards dwarfed the kind of coverage that would have been given had he actually got the perfect game. The Tigers gave Galarraga a new Corvette as a consolation prize although giving a car to a guy making millions of dollars a year doesn't seem all that great to me but to the DWF's a free Corvette is a wet dream come true, so a great PR move none-the-less.
The next game Joyce was scheduled to be the home plate umpire so the Tigers had Galarraga bring out the line-up card before the game. It allowed for further wallowing in the whole event by the media.
I saw lots of video on a tearful Jim Joyce falling on his sword, practically wailing how he cost "that kid a perfect game". Something seemed a little odd about the whole thing but at first glance all parties involved seemed to handle it okay. Galarraga, for his part, handled it exceptionally well. He's hispanic but looks pretty white for the most part (born in Venezuala).
The other day, now 3 weeks after the fact, the local sports show was going on about it again. They showed the damn play at least 10-15 times in a row, over and over. I thought to myself "what's the angle", what cultural marxist point were they trying to drill home to the DWF's?
It occurred to me that there was a partly racial angle to it, Joyce is s grey haired old white guy, Galarraga a young hispanic male. The future of america playing out, an evil white demon cheating a precious minority out of some deserved award. And Joyce played the part perfectly.
It finally occurred to me what was bugging me about the whole thing. Joyce was personifying what I call the "pussification" of white America. Sure he blew the call. Okay he apologized. It happens. He didn't mean it so move on. When I was a kid you would never get an umpire to admit he blew the call even if he saw it on tape.
And if he did admit it, he would never CRY about it. There's no crying in baseball! God, it sickened me to see that old man crying. What a wimp. Mistakes happen in life, move on. But an umpire crying about blowing a call? WTF?
The coverage afterwards dwarfed the kind of coverage that would have been given had he actually got the perfect game. The Tigers gave Galarraga a new Corvette as a consolation prize although giving a car to a guy making millions of dollars a year doesn't seem all that great to me but to the DWF's a free Corvette is a wet dream come true, so a great PR move none-the-less.
The next game Joyce was scheduled to be the home plate umpire so the Tigers had Galarraga bring out the line-up card before the game. It allowed for further wallowing in the whole event by the media.
I saw lots of video on a tearful Jim Joyce falling on his sword, practically wailing how he cost "that kid a perfect game". Something seemed a little odd about the whole thing but at first glance all parties involved seemed to handle it okay. Galarraga, for his part, handled it exceptionally well. He's hispanic but looks pretty white for the most part (born in Venezuala).
The other day, now 3 weeks after the fact, the local sports show was going on about it again. They showed the damn play at least 10-15 times in a row, over and over. I thought to myself "what's the angle", what cultural marxist point were they trying to drill home to the DWF's?
It occurred to me that there was a partly racial angle to it, Joyce is s grey haired old white guy, Galarraga a young hispanic male. The future of america playing out, an evil white demon cheating a precious minority out of some deserved award. And Joyce played the part perfectly.
It finally occurred to me what was bugging me about the whole thing. Joyce was personifying what I call the "pussification" of white America. Sure he blew the call. Okay he apologized. It happens. He didn't mean it so move on. When I was a kid you would never get an umpire to admit he blew the call even if he saw it on tape.
And if he did admit it, he would never CRY about it. There's no crying in baseball! God, it sickened me to see that old man crying. What a wimp. Mistakes happen in life, move on. But an umpire crying about blowing a call? WTF?
