Thoughts on instant replay
Greg…ask and you shall receive. I love it. Everyone is complaining saying how can you do this mid-season? Well how would you like it if the umps blew a home run call against the Phillies that winds up costing the Mets the division. And honestly, if a call favored the Mets I wouldn’t want them to win like that anyway.
MLB noticed a problem, and they’re correcting it. Good job by them. And if the umpires weren’t so damn awful, we wouldn’t need to do this. But the umps blew a call for Carlos Beltran in the third game of the season against the Marlins and then of course everyone remembers the terrible call against Carlos Delgado against the Yankees. When you think about it, Delgado should have 31 homers nad 95 RBI….aka MVP numbers.
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Greg Price August 28th at 2:27 pm
Thanks Mike. I, however, respectully disagree. Baseball is our oldest most pure sport… the rules havent changed in any significant way (save the DH in the AL) since Jackie Robinson. The umpires are as organic to the game as the wood and leather. The umpire makes a decision that affects the game everytime it leaves the control of the pitcher. The dynamic of bad calls and reconciliatory bad calls is part of the game. It is organic and beautiful and human. And this could be a slippery slope that could end in the TV strike tracker determining the strike zone. The umpires are part of the game. I hate the instant replay. Feels sac-religious.
Greg Price August 28th at 10:47 pm
thank God for small miracles. Phillies lose.