Basball's blown call

Perfect game Blown Call:
On June 3rd’s NY Times, George Vesey takes the side of MLB and the blown call and states that “baseball acknowledges its own imperfection”?

That’s hogwash. Baseball likes to pretend it’s honest, wholesome, family oriented, and patriotic. No reason in the world that a call can not be reversed, an asterisk put on a record, or even a replay put into the sport similar to that of the NFL. Baseball likes t pretend it’s “America’s past time” but it’s big business and the Sherman Anti-trust laws do not apply to it I am sure the car companies, big banks, and the oil industry wish that was the case with them). In effect, the crooked owners can get away with anything: stiffing players, collusion, the juiced ball, and looking the other way when they knew everyone was on steroids. An asterisk should be put next to Gallaraga’s game, and a form a replay in baseball should be instituted. Blatant, blown calls in the 9th inning of perfect games and steroids, over the long haul, can not be good for the sport.

Think of how many sports use a form of replay? NFL? NHL? Even every horse race is taped by numerous cameras and reviewed by either a steward’s inquiry or an objection that can be claimed by a jockey forcing a review.

Like baseball, the ONLY sport that is anti-technology is soccer: Geoff Hurst’s goal in 1966 still counts as does Maradonna’s “hand of god” in 1982. Look how Ireland got stiffed in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup against France? Some soccer fans like to think that that’s all “part of the game”—maybe in a school yard but not in international & professional competition.

Some of those soccer fans even think France can win this year’s world cup as well. , a team that needs to cheat against Ireland (where soccer isn’t the #1 sport behind Gaelic football and arguably, horse racing). With that sport’s sense of “not fair play”, no wonder it can not seem to get a good portion of market share in the USA and no wonder, baseball “ain’t what it used to be”