Friday, June 4, 2010  There's No Goin' Back    • Every wrong
can't be righted----nor should it be:  This isn't Quantum Leap,
a do-gooder hopping and inhabiting the bodies of one person
after another, righting what once went wrong and hoping the next
leap would be the leap....home.  And Bud Selig isn't Scott
Bakula.  Technically, it was within Bud Selig's all-encompassing
power to overturn the blown call by Jim Joyce that ruined
Armando Galarraga's perfect game and rectify the mistake.  He
could've done it. The short-term celebration that would've been
forgotten relatively quickly except for another quirky baseball
story that people will tell over and over again. The long-term
consequences would've---not could've, would've----been
disastrous.  Consider the following.  Let's say hypothetically
the Yankees, Red Sox and Rays are all battling for the Wild
Card/AL East title on the last weekend of the season----well
within the realm of possibility. The Yankees and Red Sox are
playing one another in Boston on the fi