Yes, Jim Joyce blew a call. But Bud Selig has done so much worse in wrecking an entire era. In yet the latest blunder of a career known more for infuriating shortsightedness than any forward, dynamic thinking, our 75-year-old commissioner is refusing to reverse the blown call of veteran umpire Jim Joyce. Unless you've been lost at sea, it's the one Wednesday night that cost Detroit's Armando Galarraga the 21st perfect game in major-league history -- a gaffe that became a nationwide sore point Thursday.The error would have been easy enough for Selig to fix: Realize that Joyce was outrageously wrong to call Cleveland's Jason Donald safe with two out in the ninth inning, grasp that Galarraga and the Tigers went on to win 3-0 and conclude that a call reversal would be irrelevant to the game's outcome. That way, Selig would remind fans that baseball's integrity is vital to its record-keeping and that he can't, in good conscience, leave Galarraga off history's roll call.
But as we awaited justice, Selig just brought more inaction and ambiguity to a sport that is more maddening these days than satisfying. A baseball source confirmed to both the Associated Press and FanHouse that Selig won't be reversing and, typically, Bud Lite didn't even make it a point of reference in his statement about the situation.
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