Do you want instant replay in baseball? (1 Viewer)

[Leroy Hoard]

Only if a hot chick in the stands makes a nice catch.

 

[comfortably numb]

lol @ purity and tradition.

"Hey, lets NOT care that most our players are on some sort of drugs to enhance their performance as we watch all the historic records crumble.

Lets make our ballparks smaller so more HR's can be hit and more people can come and watch.

Lets make a meaningless all-star game have an effect on who has home field advantage in the WS

What? This Bob Gibson fellow is too dominant?!?! Can't have too many 2-0 games, no one will watch our sport, Lets lower the mound, thus making scoring easier

What? we get better sponsors if we start our WS games at 8:46PM EST. Sounds good to me"

Baseball will change/do anything *IF* it makes them money. PERIOD.

So PLEASE spare me the purity and tradition.

I don't blame them, they are a business and run it as such. But the only reason IR is not already in service is 1 reason and it's not tradition.

Money. There is no monetary reason why it should be implemented.

It will happen, but it will happen because moreso because of public outcry rather then simply being better for the game.

I get the nostalgia in not wanting something to change, I really get that. People just generally don't like change, especially a change from what we had as a child.

Baseball will drag it's feet on this as well, as they always seem to do. It may be 2012 when we finally see IR initiated.

Bud, please start making choices/changes for baseball as they are needed, not to when your back is up against the wall and desperate.

TIA

/rant

 

[Tremendous Upside]

This is far from a modern issue:

From David Halberstam's Boys of Summer:

[Mel Parnell] might well have had four victories against the Indians, if not for dubious umpire's call on June 8th in a game in which Parnell had been matched up against Gene Bearden -- a brilliant pitching duel in Fenway. With one man on, Lou Boudreau hit a sharp line drive toward the right field line. In the eyes of almost everyone there the ball hooked foul and into the stands long before it reached the foul pole. A fan who was obviously sitting in foul territory caught the ball and held it up. But in Fenway the stands along the baseline jut out, and Charlie Berry, the umpire covering the play, ran out and somehow called it fair, a two fun home run."

Those were the only two runs in a 2-0 Indians victory.The Indians and Red Sox finished the 1948 season tied and went to a playoff game which the Indians won. Without that missed call, who knows what might have happened.

With the technology we now have, the time is right to institute a limited form of instant replay for homers/non homers

 

[comfortably numb]

MLB looking to add instant replay in 2008

I would be shocked and surprised to see it instituted in 2008.

If so, I will eat my crow about on this.

Wheels are in motion and look to be picking up a lot of speed.

 

[comfortably numb]

MLB looking to add instant replay in 2008

I would be shocked and surprised to see it instituted in 2008.

If so, I will eat my crow about on this.

Wheels are in motion and look to be picking up a lot of speed.

Where is the crow eating smiley?