Pretty good piece on OTL this morning. Jim Joyce -- the umpire who blew the call that would have given Galarraga a perfect game in Detroit -- was profiled. He mentioned things like "it's almost worse than when my Dad died," and showed letters that he gets (and his family) even to this day about how he's going to be shot when he travels to X town, and what not. Beyond discussions of how stupid people who make death threats are, it's amazing to think of how easy it would have been to spare Joyce and his family the pain of having their lives overturned for one split moment of bad decision-making. There's a real cost to not having replay in baseball. I think Joyce is a good look at the price that must be paid -- wrongly to be sure -- for human beings being human in a world of stupid people. Here's a link to the OTL article: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=5993137 By all accounts I can see, Joyce is a really good guy. He's never going to be able to move past this thing. That's pretty unfortunate, and it just strikes me how easily we could remedy the situation, and yet nothing is done.