Armando Galarraga receives a Corvette as consolation prize

[Bluebear]

I could live with that.

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Bob Barker and Rod Roddy couldn't have planned it better themselves.

In the wake of Armando Galarraga's(notes) perfect-game-that-wasn't, Chevrolet and the Detroit Tigers rightly decided that the jilted pitcher deserved a grand gift anyway.

So a new Corvette was driven behind home plate prior to Thursday's game with the Cleveland Indians and presented to the man who has been nothing but class in the face of Wednesday's disappointing and unjust finish. That'll ease the sting a bit.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Armando-Galarraga-receives-a-Corvette-consolatio?urn=mlb,245508

[Cant trust em]

1. Give that man an asterisk!

Put him in the record books as having pitched a perfect game. Put an asterisk on it saying that what should have been the 27th out was a botched call by the umpire as evidenced by video.

[spanone]

2. i like that.

[WeDidIt]

3. There's a solution!

I like that.

Bud Selig could probably get behind that, too.

[Arctic Dave]

6. Why, he has proved that he is a class act.

In my book, that is better then an *.

[LiberalFighter]

8. It should also include that Commissioner Bud Selig screwed up as usual.

[Johonny]

10. They just dumped all those games

There use to be a bunch of asterisks no hitters but baseball finally put and end to them all a few years ago. I doubt they want to start creating a whole bunch of them again. Does it really matter. The guy is more likely to be talk about as it stands.

[sadbear]

4. No asterisks necessary

Whether or not the umpire got it right, everyone knows Galarraga pitched a perfect game. (Everyone remembers Harvey Haddix, right?)

[Cant trust em]

7. Who? nt

[Blue_Tires]

5. GM could have at least given him a ZO6 or ZR-1

[Forkboy]

9. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this.

[Major Hogwash]

11. Bud Selig should grow some balls and overturn that game's box score.

And give him the prefect game.
I could have called that guy out from home sitting in my fucking chair!!

What a ripoff!

This is why baseball has gone to the dawgs over the last 2 decades.