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7-Jun-2010 : When I work at night with Matthew Horn, the newspaper's sports reporter, some sort of sporting event is usually on the television.

Last Wednesday, we were watching the Cleveland Indians play the Detroit Tigers. I wasn't really paying attention until Matthew mentioned something.

Then I realized we could be looking at a perfect game.

It was exciting until, on what should have been the 27th out of the game, umpire Jim Joyce made a mistake and pitcher Armando Galarraga lost his chance to have the 21st perfect game in baseball history.

I was angry with the umpire, until I heard an interview later.

When he made the call, he truly thought he had made the right one. He made a mistake, a really bad mistake.

He felt horrible. I know that feeling well. Just last week I awoke in the middle of the night, slapped my hand against my forehead and said a bad word because I realized I might have spelled a little boy's name wrong in a story I had written.

It happens to me all the time, not because I don't care, but because I don't realize I'm making a mistake when I make it.

With baseball games and newspaper deadlines, you can't go back in time and fix something.

I asked some people in my rather eclectic group of friends, "What do you do when you make a truly horrible mistake?"

Most gave a straight answer: own up to the mistake, apologize sincerely, do what you can to make it right and try to move forward.

One friend said, "Blame the dog," and I asked her if she had just perhaps done something unladylike.

Another friend had a view that I had not considered. "Messing up is the most important thing in creativity," he wrote to me. "If we didn't screw things up, we wouldn't have penicillin."

Microwave ovens, Viagra and the ending to the movie "The Graduate" are some of his other examples of mistakes that worked better than the original plan.

I'd read some articles about how graciously Galarraga had taken Joyce's apology.

I get weary when I hear people talk about athletes as role models when the way some of them behave can be immature at the least and self-destructive at the worst.

Sometimes I take a brief scenario and imagine things about the person involved. Based on the tiny bit I know about Galarraga -- that he didn't use a statistic as an excuse to compromise his character -- I see him as an appropriate role model.

Without the mistake, I would never have seen that.

So, here's this week's question: What's the best mistake you've ever made?

Here's a response to last week's question, which was about the best way to get over the end of a relationship:

Treat yourself as if you had a broken leg or arm because you have a broken heart.

Be kind to yourself. Be gentle and loving, just as you wish your ex had been.

Do all the things for yourself you wish had come from your relationship. Love yourself perfectly and sweetly and give yourself everything you always wanted from your ex.

Remember the good things and let the bad wash over you and float away. Obsess over the wonderful things you want for yourself in the future, not the things that torment you from the past.

Rest, read things that inspire and lift you, walk in nature and breathe the good, fresh air. You're making a new start.

And never, never stop hoping and believing that things will get better -- because they will.