May
25
Source: ESPN
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The word is that Major League Baseball will try to incorporate instant replay to determine debatable homerun calls in the Arizona Fall League, and if they have success, they will extend it to the Majors. I think that instant replay would be a great addition to baseball. There was one time I was watching a Red Sox game in which a play that was actually a homerun was determined not to be one by the umpires, and instant replay from the broadcasters showed that it was in fact a homerun and the umpires got it wrong. Things like this happen because let’s face it, these umpires are human. Sometimes they make errors about what’s a homerun and what isn’t as well as things such as whether the base runner made it to the bag before the baseman caught the ball. Things like this should be reviewable when a manager or player believes the call was wrong. Such debates would ensure the call was right or wrong and it would also prevent those very violent-looking arguments between managers and umpires. Sure, instant replay will slow down the game a little, but I’d rather spend a few extra minutes making sure something is right than making a game speedier with the chance of a bad call.
The MLB should give it a shot. I’d be surprised if they didn’t like it.
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