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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, November 22, 2011Yellen: At Last, MLB Expands Replay Review—ALMOST Far EnoughMore inter-league games! Expanded instant replay!! Elston Howard Batting Donuts don’t really work!!!.....MY HELL AWAITS!!!!
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1. Shredder Posted: November 22, 2011 at 09:08 PM (#3999731)They already reverse these plays occasionally. Umps use their judgment to place runners.
I consider myself one of the least negative people here, but my first thought is: badly.
I'm strongly inclined to agree with this statement - more interleague, more replays, more invasive testing, screwing around with draft picks, screwing around with compensation, and so on. This really isn't filling me with basebally joy.
Definitely sounds like a step in the right direction, depending on how they implement it. Sadly, sounds like they forgot to include robot umpires, this time around.
Is there a pdf of the agreement anywhere?
Similarly, how difficult or expensive would it be to have sensors in the bases to detect when the runner touches them? The blown calls in those video clips are pretty outrageous.
Why stop there? I demand that every play be reviewed, because sometimes humans don't notice when a play should be reviewed, being human and all. It just isn't FAIR!
I don't care how long it takes, we are going to get the calls RIGHT. This isn't a game people. It's serious business.
This is the problem. When the NFL started replays, there were so many examples of players clearly being down before a fumble, but the referees allowed the play to go on because it was reviewable. Replay led to far more bad calls that were made.
And sorry, but this doesn't even remotely reduce human error. It just shifts responsibility from the umpires to cameramen and directors.
Make it robot fans and you've got a deal!
God, please no. If it's about getting calls right, why on earth should it hinge on a coach's decision?
Of course, anybody who thinks that replay is about getting the calls right has never actually watched an NFL game.
If you did implement this system - they've recently started using something similar in cricket - I don't understand why you'd have more than 1 challenge per team, that was only used up if you challenge incorrectly. You don't want managers burning challenges 'just in case' something turns out different on replay; you want replay to prove where there's been an important, flagrant mistake.
Reducing the number of available challenges to 1 basically should ensure that they're only used a) in a desperate case, such as the last inning of a close game, or b) where there's been an obvious miscarriage of justice. Both of which are times where you'll live with the delay, rather than resent having a team burn their second challenge in the 6th inning of a 9-2 game because, hey, it's a free asset, and you might as well.
RB in Boston, not a company, a union. The National Urologists Union.
This is a structural problem. The easiest solution to keep play moving is to put an umpire in a replay booth in radio contact with the on-field crew. That umpire can call in decisions or otherwise let the appropriate crew members know what he sees... it would add another umpire to the crew, which their union should like...
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