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    No longer safe to be wrong

    as i'm sure many of you have heard (AND SEEN) already - we almost had the 3rd perfect game in the past THREE WEEKS. but, as everyone now knows, it wasn't meant to be because an ump blew it (official video here http://bit.ly/cCe2Vj). The sad thing is, if this happened 5, 10 years ago, it would have hit on midnight sportscenter, or maybe the paper the following morning. and it would probably blow over (as egregious as it sounds).

    but because of the immediacy of the web, and the chatter on twitter (check http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Armando+Galarraga or http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Jim+Joyce), thousands of people have not only learned about this crazy retarded ump call, but have actually seen the video proof that the ump was 100% WRONG. amazing stuff. you just can't hide, and MLB needs to catch up with the times and implement video replay because moments like this should now be allowed to happen anymore. and jim joyce should never be allowed to ump a major league game (or little league game, or any game for that matter).

    one plus out of this is that it unearthed the story of harvey haddix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Haddix), a pitcher who really got screwed in the grand scheme of things. dude pitched 12 innings of perfect baseball, 36 up 36 down. against hank aaron's braves. but his team was not able to score a run and they lost 1-0 in the 13th inning.
    • 2 June 2010
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    Hello. My name is Jason, and here you will find some thoughts on the all things digital media, but with a focus on a couple of things i love: movies, music and games. I used to be a VC at FirstMark Capital in NYC, and now lead the International Publishing efforts at online game publisher/developer Riot Games in LA. It goes without saying, but all opinions found on this site are not representative of opinions of either FirstMark Capital or Riot Games. They are my own personal random rants.

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