What Commissioner Selig isn’t getting is that this taint, this blot, this imperfection will hang over baseball forever. There is no upside to letting it pass because it won’t pass. Like the Black Sox scandal or you-know-who’s home-run record, it will haunt baseball forever.
In every baseball park in every town, from the Bronx to your kid’s Little League field, any time some pitcher gets close to being perfect, half the people there will start talking about the Galarraga travesty. It will never go away. Not to mention the condemned umpire, whose name we refuse to print, out of mercy.
Come on, Bud. The Earth has stopped spinning on its axis. No one cares anymore if the Yankees win their 99th World Series. Little kids with a lifetime of baseball ahead of them are asking their fathers to explain why it has to be this way. It doesn’t. It wasn’t. It was perfect.
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