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NYers Commiserate With Armando Galarraga
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Jen Chung
Published Jun 4, 2010
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After Detroit Tigers' pitcher Armando Galarraga's perfect game was essentially stolen from him by an umpire's botched call, the NY Times decided to ask some New Yorkers what they were robbed of. A 17-year-old boy in the East Village said, "I had this girl up at my house, and my father walked in. That messed me up," and his friend offered, "I finished typing my exhibition on the computer, and I lost it. I got a F on it." In the meantime, the Post's Joel Sherman thinks MLB Commissioner Bud Selig's decision not to reverse the call was the right one, because then it opens the floodgates.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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