WOW! Hey MLB it is called instant replay you morons...

Why can't they give the managers a little red flag that they can tuck into their pants or socks and throw it out on questions of HR's, plays at bases, or trapped balls? Simple.

Lions' Jim Schwartz wouldn't have been as cool as Tigers
John Niyo / The Detroit News

Allen Park -- Lions coach Jim Schwartz watched in stunned disbelief like everyone else as a blown call robbed the Tigers' Armando Galarraga of a perfect game Wednesday night at Comerica Park.

But he also marveled at what he saw in the aftermath of Jim Joyce's already-infamous blunder. Anger, yes. But also remarkable restraint from manager Jim Leyland and his players.

Asked if he would've reacted the same way to a similar call against his team, Schwartz laughed.

"Oh God, no. I would've been thrown out," he said. "And I would've caused the Detroit police probably a lot of problems. It wouldn't have gone easily."

Like many Detroit sports fans, Schwartz picked up Galarraga's bid for perfection midway through Wednesday night's broadcast.

"I started watching about the bottom of the fifth, and even let the kids stay up late so that they could see it," he said. "And my 6-year-old daughter (Maria) said, 'But Daddy, he was out.' So, I mean, if she can see it ...

"I'll tell you what: I hope that if I was in a similar situation I would have the grace to be able to handle it the way Galarraga handled it and also Jim Leyland -- just the whole Tigers (team.) That's just a credit to that whole organization the way they were able to handle that."

Added Schwartz: "I don't know a whole lot about baseball and officials, but it seems pretty unanimous that that guy (Joyce) is a pretty good umpire, and he's really well-respected. So No. 1, hats off to the Tigers for the way they handled it. But (Joyce) manned up also. He looked at it afterward and he apologized, and I'm sure he probably feels worse than anybody else in Detroit or around the country right now."

As for Galarraga, Schwartz offered another take on Wednesday's bizarre finish.

"You know, in a strange sort of way, he didn't get the perfect game, but everybody knew he threw a perfect game," Schwartz said. "And that's something that'll be talked about probably for the next 30-40 years. Where we've already had two perfect games (and) I know (Roy) Halladay threw one, but I don't even know who the other guy (Oakland's Dallas Braden) was. So rather than sort of just falling into obscurity a little bit, this is a play that people will talk about maybe for the rest of their lives."

But does he think baseball should adopt an expanded instant replay similar to the one the NFL uses?

"I don't need to be commenting on baseball replay," Schwartz said, laughing. "As a fan, I don't know. I've seen some plays that you'd like to change, but then I don't know. I need to get my Bob Costas hat off and not comment on baseball things."

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20100603/SPO ... z0pqnupSdO