DRaysBay: An Interview With Jonah Keri

Keener than your average Joe Keener...Jonah speaks.

EH: You’re a big proponent of baseball adopting more uses of instant replay, but that doesn’t seem likely with Selig still in office. Realistically, how long do you think it will be until baseball joins the 21st century and uses the advances in technology to improve the quality of the game?

JK: The next time I correctly predict what Bud Selig will do will be the first. I will say you have to look at this the way you would any piece of collective bargaining. I would guess that if Selig pushes for replay, that means he needs to make a concession to umpires. Same way you’d think that stricter drug testing would be a slam dunk, but it requires/required owners to make it palatable for players.

I will say this, though: It’s just another in a long list of short-sighted (non-)decisions by the most overrated Commissioner of any major sport who’s ever presided during my lifetime. When Bud Selig makes his Hall of Fame speech, I look forward to jeering him with chants of “1994”, followed by me breaking down and weeping. Then throwing monkey feces at him.