Posted Thursday, July 08, 2010 09:53 AM
I cannot believe the All-Star break is this weekend. It is pretty depressing knowing that summer is half over and living in the northeast makes it that much more depressing. The only light at the end of the tunnel is that football is right around the corner. Well, the CFL is going on right now but I’m talking NCAA and NFL, the latter hitting camps in a couple weeks.
The All-Star break also brings a break for handicappers and gamblers as Monday and Wednesday have no action, the only two days of the year this normally takes place. Although there are WNBA games on Wednesday, if you go that way. It actually is a nice little break as the long days and nights of work will be here before you know it.
How’s your fantasy team doing? I’m fortunately in first place in my division but I don’t know how long this is going to last as my pitching staff is falling like flies as Clay Buchholz and Shaun Marcum have landed on the DL. According to the ESPN Player Rater, three of my players, Carl Crawford, Miguel Cabrera and Adam Wainwright, are all ranked in the top four. Can you say luck?
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Posted Thursday, June 03, 2010 06:58 AM
Jim Joyce is human. He made a tough call last night on that ground ball to first base which ended the perfect game for Armando Galarraga with two outs in the ninth inning. I am not saying he made the right call but I’m not saying he made a bad call either. Everyone else is saying that and that is their opinion while mine is he made the wrong call. We all do sometime.
It has been less than 12 hours since this all took place and there have been numerous stories popping up about how he blew history. His Wikipedia page was vandalized. I’m sure he had to change his cell phone number already. No offense to the city of Detroit but I can guarantee there has been a death threat or two. The website firejimjoyce.com was created.
Why do I think he deserves a break? He clearly knows he messed up and he did not make the call he did to put himself in the forefront. He wept after the game knowing that he robbed Galarraga of a piece of history. Do you think Joe West wept after tossing out Mark Buehrle after calling two bogus balks? Do you think Bill Hohn wept after tossing out Roy Oswalt only later to find out Oswalt was mad at himself? I doubt it.
People are saying he should be fired, suspended, thrown out of baseball. I think we need more like him. Every umpire has made at least one bad call along the way, some many. That is part of the human element of the game and it is inevitable. It ... [More]