TOL Topic of the Day:Should Major League Baseball expand the situations for use of In

[NarrowWay]

The TheologyOnline.com TOPIC OF THE DAY for July 28th, 2011 10:55 AM

toldailytopic: Should Major League Baseball expand the situations for use of Instant Replay?

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[NarrowWay]

Here's one situation that would give reason to argue to do so...

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-passan_pirates_braves_blown_call_replay_072711

 

[Sherman]

Here's one situation that would give reason to argue to do so...

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-passan_pirates_braves_blown_call_replay_072711

I don't think that situation is a first. I have watched enough baseball games where there were extended timeouts where the umpires bickered over whether to call a runner out or not. Why baseball hasn't instituted instant replay I don't understand. Is it pride or just plain stupidity? Baseball is a sport rife with silly superstitions and traditions. Maybe that plays a role in the sport's reluctance to accept the technology of instant replay. Instant replay has been around since 1963. This is 2011--almost 50 years. The stupidity lingers like Babe Ruth's supposed ghost.

 

[Town Heretic]

On scoring plays? Absolutely. :thumb:

 

[Granite]

Yes. Hopefully they don't overuse it.

 

[Nick M]

It should be like the NHL. The NFL uses it wrong. The NFL declares the call is made on the field, whether they saw it or not, and you have to overrule without question.

When no call should be made and they should go straight to the monitor.

 

[kmoney]

Here's one situation that would give reason to argue to do so...

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-passan_pirates_braves_blown_call_replay_072711

I had heard about that play but hadn't seen the replay until now. It's not as obvious as I had heard but it did look like the tag was made. The ump probably just wanted the game to be over.

Yes, MLB should expand replay. It would be good for plays like this.

 

[eameece]

Yes, baseball is a stick in the mud. Lots of mistakes are made without accountability.

 

[john w]

No, as it would lower the probability of me getting mad at the umps, and lower the # of brewski's I'd be consuming.

 

[Nick M]

Yes. Hopefully they don't overuse it.

It would be ok with me if Greg Maddux had a whole of balls in the dirt changed from called strike to ball, and wins vaccated.

He earned that call.

Oh, shut up Joe Morgan.