Instant Replay in Baseball
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Baseball doesn't need instant replay... But what it DOES need is accountability from it's umpires.
If you fuck up a call or two, you need to get warned. If you keep doing it, you're gone. Forever. There are plenty of guys umpiring in the minors that can come up and replace them.
You can't have no instant replay and no accountability... The umpires have no incentive to make sure they get the calls right.
If you fuck up a call or two, you need to get warned. If you keep doing it, you're gone. Forever. There are plenty of guys umpiring in the minors that can come up and replace them.
You can't have no instant replay and no accountability... The umpires have no incentive to make sure they get the calls right.
Instant replay would change the entire dynamic of a game. There's no place in baseball for it. Say a pitcher starts an inning (with nobody up in the bullpen) and it goes like this:
HR on a 0-1 count
4 pitch walk
First pitch single, runners at the corners
First pitch HBP
Now you got the bases loaded after 8 pitches and nobody out... And the manager of the team on defense argues that the HBP call was wrong because it hit the bat... They go review, and he's wrong. It hit the batter and the original call was right... But in the meantime, he just bought his reliever in the bullpen the time he needed to get warmed up and he's ready to come into the game right after the instant replay, rather than the guy on the mound having to face an extra batter or two because the guy in the pen wasn't warmed up.
The pace of the game is right about where it should be... Change that now and you're going to change too much.
HR on a 0-1 count
4 pitch walk
First pitch single, runners at the corners
First pitch HBP
Now you got the bases loaded after 8 pitches and nobody out... And the manager of the team on defense argues that the HBP call was wrong because it hit the bat... They go review, and he's wrong. It hit the batter and the original call was right... But in the meantime, he just bought his reliever in the bullpen the time he needed to get warmed up and he's ready to come into the game right after the instant replay, rather than the guy on the mound having to face an extra batter or two because the guy in the pen wasn't warmed up.
The pace of the game is right about where it should be... Change that now and you're going to change too much.
So what, you have to have special umpires that make sure the bullpen pitchers don't warm up while it's going on?
Instant replay would never work in baseball. Punish umpires and the bad calls will get much better. They should also make it so a manager can make an umpire get help... Say a player check swings and the ump says he went around and calls a strike without asking for help... If the manager says it's wrong they should be able to force that ump to ask for help instead of the ump not having to ask for help because he thinks he saw it right...
Instant replay would never work in baseball. Punish umpires and the bad calls will get much better. They should also make it so a manager can make an umpire get help... Say a player check swings and the ump says he went around and calls a strike without asking for help... If the manager says it's wrong they should be able to force that ump to ask for help instead of the ump not having to ask for help because he thinks he saw it right...
NBA has reviews for last second shots and if the guy was on the line or not for a 3pt.
I don't like replay in baseball because it takes the human element out of the game.
Homeruns and fair or foul balls only. NO strikes/balls, no close force out plays or close tags.
Also what's with these new ballparks and their crazy ground rules for outfield homeruns? what ever happened to just putting up a freaking fence and if the ball goes over it, it's a homerun? Houston's left field is a joke. You have a yellow line 30 feet in the air then all of a sudden it drops to 8 feet?
I don't like replay in baseball because it takes the human element out of the game.
Homeruns and fair or foul balls only. NO strikes/balls, no close force out plays or close tags.
Also what's with these new ballparks and their crazy ground rules for outfield homeruns? what ever happened to just putting up a freaking fence and if the ball goes over it, it's a homerun? Houston's left field is a joke. You have a yellow line 30 feet in the air then all of a sudden it drops to 8 feet?
