Comments on: On Replay in Baseball http://oddmanrush.blogsome.com/2008/07/16/on-replay-in-baseball/ Dallas Sports from Dallas Guys Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:21:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Robert http://oddmanrush.blogsome.com/2008/07/16/on-replay-in-baseball/#comment-12 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:08:41 +0100 http://oddmanrush.blogsome.com/2008/07/16/on-replay-in-baseball/#comment-12 After thinking about it for a while, I agree with you, but not for the same reasons. I identify most with your tennis argument, because I can't stand the arbitrary rules that accompany the technology. If the umpire gets the call wrong twice, the player can't challenge it twice? I think the same thing, although to a lesser extent, with football. I also agree with Brian, though, that bad calls aren't what make the game great. Baseball has always been a sport of subjectivity. The strike zone is defined in the rulebook, but it is up to each individual umpire to interpret it. Remember the Questec system? I'm glad that didn't last long. Having said that, the home run is not one of those subjective rules. There is no borderline home run in the same way that there is a borderline strike. IF baseball figures out a foolproof way to impose replay for objective plays only (like the home run), then I am for it. However, the proposed system is far from foolproof, and seems to be nothing more than an umpire replacement. I say have a six-man umpiring crew at all games and don't do replay. After thinking about it for a while, I agree with you, but not for the same reasons. I identify most with your tennis argument, because I can’t stand the arbitrary rules that accompany the technology. If the umpire gets the call wrong twice, the player can’t challenge it twice? I think the same thing, although to a lesser extent, with football. I also agree with Brian, though, that bad calls aren’t what make the game great.

Baseball has always been a sport of subjectivity. The strike zone is defined in the rulebook, but it is up to each individual umpire to interpret it. Remember the Questec system? I’m glad that didn’t last long. Having said that, the home run is not one of those subjective rules. There is no borderline home run in the same way that there is a borderline strike. IF baseball figures out a foolproof way to impose replay for objective plays only (like the home run), then I am for it. However, the proposed system is far from foolproof, and seems to be nothing more than an umpire replacement. I say have a six-man umpiring crew at all games and don’t do replay.

]]> by: Brian http://oddmanrush.blogsome.com/2008/07/16/on-replay-in-baseball/#comment-11 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:28:36 +0100 http://oddmanrush.blogsome.com/2008/07/16/on-replay-in-baseball/#comment-11 I see where you're coming from. However, I disagree. If we can make the system perfect to the point where there are no bad calls, it needs to be done. I can't buy into the idea that bad calls are what makes the game great. Bad calls suck. Plain and simple, at least for me. But if this whole replay thing never gets done, then the system we have now will be the best system, and we won't have anything to complain about. I see where you’re coming from. However, I disagree. If we can make the system perfect to the point where there are no bad calls, it needs to be done. I can’t buy into the idea that bad calls are what makes the game great. Bad calls suck. Plain and simple, at least for me. But if this whole replay thing never gets done, then the system we have now will be the best system, and we won’t have anything to complain about.

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