If you follow sports at all, you are completely aware of Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga losing his perfect game on the final out thanks to an awful — and admittedly incorrect — call by umpire (and amazing writer) Jim Joyce. No news. But watch the video below, shot from the stands, simply for the sound: the elation that the perfect game has been achieved, immediately turning into abject horror and disgust. At least he’s not a Texas Ranger anymore. Though I would have been interested to see what Lone Star Ball had to say.
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