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American Spectator: Not a few days later the nation found itself introduced to a more unlikely -- and reluctant-hero: a Major League Baseball umpire who blew a call as badly as a call can be blown, at the worst possible moment, depriving a deserving pitcher and the baseball universe alike of an ultimate achievement, American Spectator a perfect game. Oddly, the pitcher who threw the stolen perfect game, Armando Galarraga, was no more eager to exploit his sudden fame and victimization. It was a work of pitching art for art's sake. It will forever hang in baseball's museum.

Congratulations are owed current Commissioner Bud Selig, for resisting the public and political outcry and refusing to overturn Joyce's blown call. That meant ignoring Rep. John Dingell's efforts to introduce a congressional resolution demanding MLB overturn the call. The House brute should have heeded Hugo Chavez's words: "The umpire was wrong...but, well, the umpire is the umpire."
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