Dude you’ve been touting him for 2 years now. This man was absolutely robbed!
Love his attitude though.
This is seriously a f’n joke. Guy got robbed so bad. I hope this man was castrated by angry Detroit folk.
I feel robbed everytime I watch it. As far as I see it, that dude was still perfect despite the ump just trying to do too much. He even said he had a good angle of the play in the interview he gave with Detroit talk radio after his bone-head ass ruined the 21st perfect game in MLB history and 3rd in less than a month.
Firt 28 out perfect game in history!
What a fucking mess.
Props to Armando for being such a stand up dude.
Joyce’d!!! 
Just heard Joyce’s interview. The guy knows he f’d up. Now I feel bad for the ump, because he was just trying to do his job, albeit not very good, and just messed up. He said himself that he robbed this kid who had worked his ass off, now he has to live with it forever. I think he understands he is now just underneath Don Denkinger-level. Honestly, I feel bad for everybody involved, it’s just a real sad situation.
LOL! Glad someone noticed. I don’t know why but I liked him two years ago when he was one of the few bright spots on that team and I LOVE his attitude for games. That mischievous smile that he gave Joyce after that bad call…I’ve seen that smile before…he’s reacted that same way after previous bad calls and I’ve loved that about him. That’s kind of how I react to bad news like that so I can relate. It was funny how after the game, Armando was almost comforting his teammates and was smiling the entire time during his postgame interview. Even with interviews in the clubhouse…players like Brandon Inge, Austin Jackson and Gerald Laird and even Jim Leyland had tears in their eyes as they talked about it and Armando just seemed cool with it. My favorite was how Armando said the umpire apologized to him and when referencing the call he said “Nobody’s perfect”…oh really, Armando?
And this may seem like revisionist history but I’m not THAT surprised he pitched that well. Obviously, you don’t expect anyone to throw a no-hitter but I’ve seen games where Armando was cruising through hitters and had a few games where he took a no-hitter into the 4th or even 5th inning. I knew he had the stuff to do it but he never put it together for a whole game like last night. I don’t think I’ve EVER seen a guy get that many easy outs. He had like 62 pitches through 7 innings and I think finished the game with less than 90. Amazing.
And yeah, we can’t blame Joyce…he’s human and even if it wasn’t even close, there’s something in the human brain that can make your brain see something that’s not there…kind of like how eyewitnesses to a crime sometimes give extra details that didn’t actually happen. We need a psychologist to explain what goes through a guy’s brain in an extreme moment like that to make him think that the runner actually made it to the base because if that was a close call we would understand but it wasn’t even close. (However, I would have understood a LITTLE more had Joyce said that he thought Armando bobbled the ball on the catch…that would have made a little more sense than thinking the runner beat Armando to the bag).
Of course, this is on baseball. I’m one of the many who, even after baseball had reviews for home runs, ranted about it wasn’t enough and that they needed to include close plays at the plate because that’s always the real issue. That would have solved that issue last night pretty quickly and Joyce would be sleeping soundly tonight. But because of that call, EVERYONE loses. I doubt that the Indians players and their fans feel that great about it…Armando loses, Joyce loses, the Tigers lose, their fans lose, baseball history loses, Selig loses, MLB loses, everyone loses.
And yes, I’ll always say I saw a Tiger pitch a perfect game cuz I did. Screw the record books. Armando’s the man. 28 Up. 28 Down.
ARMANDOOOOOO!!!
Yes, Really… What a joke of a call~ 
Even funnier, the guy is going to be the home plate umpire for today’s day game against the Indians. MLB gave him the option of not doing it but he’s going to face the music and do it…they interviewed him today and he was near tears.
Plus the Tigers are going to try to quell the angry crowd reaction. They’re going to have Galarraga bring out the lineup card to Joyce and then shake hands with him and stuff. Not a bad idea because he’d probably be shot. All I can say is we should get maybe get the biggest strike zone in history today.
Two poor calls in one night.
One cost a player a PERFECT game, which there are currently only 20 in the HISTORY of MLB. That call did not harm the overall outcome of the game.
msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Tige … y-bad-call
Another call cost a team a win and is just a joke as well…
sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_le … mlb,245360
Time to adjust just a touch to get with the technology we have and the other 3 major sports!
And for those that state they are a purist of the game or do not think it should be changed… Well read on, this has happened more times than some people know- I am jsut stating I am for some sort of more replay, the technology is there use it, why not…
BTW, the UMP has shed tears and actually cried today when Galarraga brought out the line up card! I feel bad for the UMP here too! With a 1 minute instant replay, history is in tact. Like the UMP said last night, “This is not A call, it is a history call and I missed it, I feel horrible!”
Yeah, I can’t blame that umpire even if I hated how it happened for Armando. Like I said before, this is baseball and their stupid, stupid obsession with tradition and “keeping the human element” in the game. Please. Get the dang calls right.
And Selig said he’s not going to overturn it. Of course he won’t.
I’m a bit surprised if only because LaRussa said it should be overturned and since he invented baseball, I figured he could rule in these decisions. I guess not.
I’m surprised at the coverage this got. Olberman was writing a letter to the Commish, Reggie Jackson supposedly wrote his own letter, all sorts of older players and managers are speaking out on it. I even heard that it even led off on the View!! If he actually GOT the perfect game, there’s no way it leads off on the View. All this hupplah over lil ole Armando. As I think about it more, the better I feel about it. He threw a perfect game and I got to watch it. We all know what it was. The record books mean nothing.
^It is funny the hype this has taken on, but since 1860 there have been only 20 of them with 2 others happening this year. I think if you look at it like this - About (and I mean about) 400,000 games played in regular season play since 1860, being one of 20 orso of anything happening is pretty sweet …
I mean what is that percentage, .00005%? It is a pretty cool feat and to blow the call on the last play of that, unreal!
why couldn’t that have happened to the Phillies pitcher that threw a perfect game on my Marlins last week?
wait…the umpire’s name is James Joyce?
Jim Joyce, yes!
Because it’s against the Marlins. Besides, they knew the Marlins needed the revenue from the extra tickets they sold after the game. And with a free tambourine!!
Yes, it’s the same guy wrote Olysseus.
Man, injuries are ruining my fave team lately, damn…Twins need a medical doctor stat!!
Can someone please tell the Chicago baseball teams that the season has started and they can show up and play whenever they’re ready! 
Wait, you mean you guys have a team or two? 