As we all have heard about the "Bad Call" in Major Leauge Baseball with the Detroit Tiger pitcher Armando Galarraga, what can we learn about this for real estate?
I am do doubt a HUGE Tiger Fan, and I am so happy to be a fan even with this 'Bad Call'.
First, I wouldn't even know how to spell Armando Galarraga with him just going in the record books! It would have been all she wrote. With this 'Bad Call' his actions were full of grace and of true sportsmanship! So hard to find this in little league baseball these days!
Second, Jim Joyce, is one man who also wouldn't have mad the news without this bad call. His appologectic and humbling grace has touched me! This I am sure was the hardest day of his life to come back to face the fans and as he put it "rob this kid" of what record books thrive on! I was mad at first, but when you are truly sorry for a mistake, forgive!
Third, trying to change the call is proving to be a little bit of a challenge according to Bud Selig's, Baseball Commissioner Statement. Wouldn't want to be in his shoes right now. It it not always the way of how this stuff goes? Could Galarraga go down in the history books if this game allowed them to 'change' how things are done which could affect some aspiring pitcher somewhere?
Home run! In real estate do we try to get into the record books by having the most sales, the best month or by helping people with thier real estate needs? Have we ever felt the pain of a buyer, seller, broker, or even us as agents from making a 'bad call' in real estate? Are we paving a path for the short sales and foreclosures and adapting to the 'change of the market' from the 'bad calls' of .... well????..... I will leave that blank so you can point the finger at whom ever you sit fit? Are we doing this with Grace? Have you cried for someone in a real estate transaction that just didn't seem fair... divorce, foreclsoure, short sale, death of a loved one? Do we show sportsmanship and help our team when working with other agents? Do we celabrate a perfect closing? Or do we remember the ones that weren't?
Final Score: Who are the winners? Those who fess up to the mistakes and hold the hands of those who are walking in grace! We can learn a lot from this 'bad call' no doubt. From the way it was called, to the way it goes down, or doesn't go down in the record books. I feel that the grace never enters the record books. But Galarraga, you are the in that book for sure! Jim Joyce, you are a true human being!
Picture was taken at a minor league game in Grand Rapids, MI
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