Cold Case In Ellyson

Jim Joyce – maybe a name you don’t knew, or perhaps only learned of recently…he’s the umpire who’s incorrect call blew Detroit Tiger’s Armando Galarraga’s perfect game. Rather than berate, cajole, spit, kick or punch, Galarraga did the unexpected – he graciously accepted Joyce’s apology without anger or malice. Remind me again, when do you see that in baseball? Uh…almost never…Perfection is so rare in this game, but the record books will never reflect this event. Yet so many of us will. Joyce was quick to apologize, with tears, Galarraga was quick to accept it, and they both conducted themselves like the gentlemen they are. So, then, what was imperfect became perfect after all.