From the AP:
Replay ball!
Umpires will be allowed to check video on home run calls starting Thursday after Major League Baseball, guardian of America's most traditional sport, reversed its decades-long opposition to instant replay.
"Like everything else in life, there are times that you have to make an adjustment," baseball commissioner Bud Selig said following Tuesday's announcement. "My opposition to unlimited instant replay is still very much in play. I really think that the game has prospered for well over a century now doing things the way we did it."
The 74-year-old Selig, who described himself as "old fashioned" and an admirer of baseball's "human element," softened his opposition following a rash of blown calls this year.
For now, video will be used only on so-called "boundary calls," such as determining whether fly balls went over the fence, whether potential home runs were fair or foul and whether there was fan interference on potential home runs.
4 comments:
Didn't see anything about last night's Red Sox game but guess who is not missing Manny Ramirez?
And speaking of the Dodgers, how bad do they suck? Wow!!!
TBLMISBT
The Monument Park post says it all.
And the Dodgers couldn't score with Ginger Lynn...
As a like minded gentleman(?) who embraces Obama's change message, I'm surprised that you are taking the old curmudgeon stance on the replay issue John. ;)
I've heard the argument that bad calls have both helped and hindered every team at different times, which I'm sure is true, what's so bad about actually getting the calls correct for a change?
Aside from the missed opportunity to teach the kids of this country that life isn't fair, I don't see how replay on home run calls hurts the game one bit.
On another note, I'm taking great pleasure in the fact that Manny doesn't seem to have had such a big impact on the dodgers after all. I'll take Bay in a heartbeat at this point in their careers.
The Sox know when to let go of their aging players.. the Yankees seem to have forgotten that in recent years.
Ok.. time to watch the Obama speech.
Baseball doesn't need change.
Period.
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