CONTAINING LINKS TO 1280 STORIES FROM THE NETWORKS' NIGHTLY NEWSCASTS
     COMMENTS: If It Is Good Enough for the Water Cooler…

…then it is good enough for the network nightly newscasts. ABC anchor Diane Sawyer claimed that "it was nearly impossible to find any place where people were not buzzing" about pitcher Armando Galarraga's oh-so-nearly-perfect game for the Detroit Tigers. NBC anchor Brian Williams argued that "people talked about this story across the country more than any other."

So all three newscasts assigned a correspondent to tell us about umpire Jim Joyce's falsely calling a baserunner safe for what would have been Galarraga's final out…then Joyce checked the post-game replay and acknowledged his error…then Galarraga accepted Joyce's personal apology…then Joyce burst into tears when Galarraga presented his team's line-up at the next game of the homestand.

NBC's Mike Taibbi heard "grace notes after an episode of injustice…28 batters, 28 actual outs, Perfection Plus."

ABC's John Berman mused that "one man missed the chance to be perfect but two men seized the chance to be good and being good in life trumps being perfect in baseball."

CBS' Dean Reynolds quoted Yogi Berra: "If the world was perfect, it would not be."

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