Citing A Few Factual Mistakes

Believe me, I could cite more mistakes and make comments, but today it is “Jack Webb time,” just the facts.

In the top of the 6th inning of the Giants/Mets wild card round game two days ago, broadcaster Howie Rose stated Roy Halladay of the TORONTO BLUE JAYS had pitched a post-season no hitter. There is one problem with that statement, Halladay “authored” his post-season no hitter, as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies. (By the way tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of the only other post-season no hitter, Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series.)

On the MLB Network show, “High Heat,” host Christopher Russo, more than once referred to the Giants/Mets wild card game’s losing pitcher Jeurys Familia’s outing as a “blown save.” The problem there, is the score was “zip-zip,” when Familia entered in the top of the ninth inning, thus it was not a blown save.

Maybe ESPN New York radio host Michael Kay had the famed professional “wrestling” matches of Bobo Brazil vs “Dr.” Bill Miller on his mind yesterday. Kay saw fit to rip into umpire Bill Miller, as undeserving of being assigned a wild card game tilt.

He seemed to have mistaken Giants/Mets game umpire Mike Winters for Miller. Having heard only a bit, I checked to see if Miller was involved in the A.L. wild card game the night before. He was not.

Maybe the umpires deserve criticism, but it is much tougher to umpire, a thankless but good pay job, than to sit and criticize them. Doing so without the facts correct, exacerbates Kay’s “people in glass houses should not throw stones” status on this matter.