re: #627 sattv4u2

He can’t, really.
If he DID, there will be a steady stream of past and future calls made that the participants will demand be changed

Selig should have asked the owners to change the rules so that the commissioner can overrule a call on the field in the very narrow circumstance of a blown perfect game whose outcome is not reasonably in question (for instance, if the game were tied 0-0). Selig might even have been able to change the rule himself using the “best interests of baseball” power. The only thing stopping him would be angry owners, and I think the owners would probably be supportive, since giving Galarraga the perfect game would be great PR.