If this works the temptation will be to use it for more. It would make the games too long if they did. Especially games involving the Sox and/or Yanks where there is a combination of slow pitchers and hitters who average a lot of pitches per at bat.
Baseball needs to be real careful with their use of the replay.
come on now. same argument was made for football, and none of the fears have come to pass. I'd rather wait 5 minutes for the correct call once or twice a game then have it blown.
its not going to evolve to reviewing outs and safe calls, nor balls and strikes. those stupid quest tech machines have been around for 6 or 7 years now, and the fear mongers said that would lead to them being used over an umpires own judgment have been proved patently false.
its ridiculous, in this day and age, that umpires 250Ft away from a ball are forced to make a call based on a matter of inches, while sportscasters watch a replay clear as day and ridicule the umps for missing the call 15 seconds later along with the rest of the viewing audiance. replay for home runs and fair and foul calls down the line is 5 years overdue at least.
just this year, umps being forced to look 250ft away and 33 ft straight up have missed 3 HR's off the top of the monster. a 15 second check of a monitor would have gotten them the help they need.
Topic: Replay Umps in MLB (Read 2459 times)