About
This disposiblog (disposable blog) exists with one main goal in mind, to firmly establish the fact that Colorado’s Matt Holliday never touched the plate when sliding home against the Padres in the the 13th inning of the National League’s 2007 wild card playoff game.
Some people have already asked me why even make this site? Usually they phrase the question in a variation of, “Get OVER IT! ROX win! Let it go.” I think that’s just their way of saying, “Why spend so much time and effort on one play? You can’t change it so why even bother?”
For me the answer is simple. Not only was the call wrong. But worse than that, the national sports media for the most part has tried to sweep the story under the rug saying that all the replays were “inconclusive” and that the truth at the heart of the play, the question of whether or not Matt Holiday touched the plate, could never be known. I never would have considered creating this site, much less putting this much effort into it if the national media had done its usual job of digging for dirt and exposing every potential scandal to the glaring light of day. This call belongs in the blown calls hall of fame. Yet, the media has quietly ignored the story since it only affected the Padres and Rockies (imagine the uproar if this kept the Yankees or Boston out of the playoffs.) In the absence of the conventional media doing its part, I have decided to step up to the plate to see what I could do to ensure that Matt Holliday’s safe call takes its rightful place in the pantheon of truly horrible botched calls.
It is not the aim of this site to argue that instant replay should be instituted in baseball, that the umpire should be reprimanded, that the call was payback for a disputed home run earlier in the contest. Nor is this site about sour grapes, that the Padres were robbed, or anything else along those lines.
This site’s primary intent is to establish the fact that Matt Holiday never touched the plate.
And once that fact is proven to your satisfaction, you may do with it what you like. Form your own arguments with it as your crux. Cite it as evidence that Baseball needs instant replay, win bar bets against Rockies fans at will, or put it to any other use you deem appropriate. All I ask in return is that you don’t let it slip by uncorrected when somebody says, “Holliday touched the plate.”