Thursday, May 16, 2013
MLB hoping for large replay expansion in 2014
(sports.yahoo.com)
Read More...Major League Baseball appears set for a vast expansion of video review by umpires in 2014 and is examining whether all calls other than balls or strikes should be subject to instant replay.
Replay has been in place for home run calls since August 2008. Commissioner Bud Selig initially wanted to add trap plays and fair/foul calls down the lines for 2013, but change was put off while more radical options were examined.
‘‘My opinion has evolved,’’ baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said Thursday ...
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< 1 2Unless you're being drafted into the army, then not so much.
What's a Repoz pinata thread? Is that the one where we try to guess the 50 most likely things to fall out of a Repoz Pinata?
It's an article or column posted by Repoz that's all but guaranteed to elicit either unanimous snark or an off-topic "hijack", which in turn affords certain brown diaper babies a chance to get all indignant about the "hijack" instead of just ignoring it.
Surely half of them are the only 25 flexidiscs ever pressed of the Judys' "Guyana Punch."
I certainly consider it possible.
What I haven't heard are any facts suggesting it actually happened in Braun's case.
The thing is, Shyam Das disagrees with you, and has been precluded from telling us why. So how could you have heard these facts you wish for? My point was that I haven't heard any facts supporting the suggestion that the arbitrator is some power-tripping loon who's been looking for any pretext to stick it to MLB since he took the job thirteen years ago. (And I know that you're not the one who suggested that.)
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