Someone, please help me out. There was a vote taken yesterday at the winter meetings to try and get Selig to approve instant replay on home runs and the vote was 25 to 5. Whats worse for me is that my favorite team's #### GM, Jim Hendry, said after the vote that he like the idea of "leaving the game in the hands of the ump." It is decision making like this, at all levels of the baseball heierarchy, that puts baseball miles behind the NFL. Hendry in essence said, "because the game has always been in the hand of the umps, why not allow the possibility of wrong home run calls to be made." He is rooting for bad officiating. The same can be said for the four other bozos that voted against the replay.
I could already see their reasoning: "It would take away form the tradition of the game. The games would take too long. How often is it a problem anyway?" As stupid as some of those claims sound, dont be surprised if the five guys that voted aginst replay use them.
-"It would take away form the tradition of the game." A continuence of stupidity just because stupidity has been used in the past is sheer madness. By that logic, the wheel would never have been invented. Makes you wonder what kind of guys are running the show.
-"The game takes too long. How often is it a problem anyway?" How often is there a questionable home run call. I would be surprised if there has ever been more than 10-15 home runs that have given an ump trouble. Considering the fact that a fatass like Bruce Fremming is making home run calls from home plate, that says something about how easy most home runs are too call. So if they are so few and would impact maybe 10-15 games per season, whats the big deal? An extra minute here and there never hurt anybody, but a bad home run call has.
ok ( and a joke) lets have instant replay for a baseball scratching himselve!!!! how many times??? and where!~!!!!!! or how many time he spit tobacco and where!!!
Last edited by kellyscott on November 7th at 8:17 AM.
Ok buddy u wanna comment my blog about sports go ahead and comment but dnt call me delusional. IF u could #### read or analyze a situation ud c that the fact that the yankees got no help from ian kennedy last year was not because of his inability to pitch, its because it was his first full year as a professional baseball player. And yes, i do think 2 players to the caliber of melky and kennedy is the best the marlins will get because those are 2 players with incredibly high ceilings.
All that being said, U YOURSELF hav 2 be delusional 2 think that the replay is a good thing. The replay in baseball will obviously get more calls right, but soon the umpires will strike because the MLB wont need as many umps and replay will hav to be implemented for every call, using the K-zone as a strike-ball ump etc. This would also ruin the effect of player status on the calls. If you notice, when Roger Clemens pitches, the strike zone gets a little bigger and he gets the benefit of the doubt because he earned it. All in all, its bad for baseball. I can see it now, Joe Torre the bum waking up from his eternal sleep on the bench and throwing a red flag to challenge a strike-ball call. Ridiculous and complete idiocy
I am college kid out of chicago and love Chicago sports aka a huge homer. My writing may contradict this, but i do care and know about sports outside of Chicago, although I may never blog about it.
