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Originally Posted by Nunyer
Football is a fundamentally different sport. The cameramen have no better idea where the action will play out then you or I do sitting at home. It is an entirely different ballgame. The vast majority of reviewed calls in baseball will occur at the bases... the bases don't move... the bases can't be surrounded by six 300lb lineman... NFL replay is simply not anywhere near an apt comparison to how this will play out in MLB.
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Well I can tell you how football and baseball with regard to replay are exactly the same. They both use selective replay, IE some plays cannot be reviewed. This, and the fact human replay officials routinely blow obvious calls even using HD and super slow motion (this will happen in baseball too despite not having the pileups etc.), are the main reasons I oppose it coming to baseball.
In both sports it comes down to this..
Team A has a runner thrown out at 1b but wait it's close and replay comes in. Replay overturns the call and the Team A runner is ruled safe and put on firstbase.
Same game and Team B has a batter with a 3-2 count. Here's the pitch and the ump calls STRIKE THREEEEE!! But wait like the batter on Team A this doesn't look right. Replay shows the ball is well off the plate and will be ruled ball four with the runner from Team B being put on first base. Oh no, that's not going to happen because this play is not reviewable. While "The vast majority of reviewed calls in baseball will occur at the bases" none will occur at homeplate for the current batter.
Why? Don't we want to get it right?
Honestly in football I at least get that it is very hard to review some plays due to the whistle stopping the action. But in baseball a pitch that is the difference between a K or a BB can't be reviewed, really?
I know some here are thinking guys that oppose replay like human error in the game. Not true, at least for me. It's just my position, as in the example above, that if we can't look at all plays then we shouldn't look at any. Put umps on the OF foul lines like the playoffs and encourage them to step up and help each other out on close calls if from their vantage point they see an obvious wrong call. I know it cost money but baseball is a mutlibillions dollar business and they are going to have to pay someone to sit in the league offices to watch and review games. Use that money to put two more live umps in the ballpark.
Hey replay is coming, I don't like it, and we're really arguing about nothing. I'll be anxious to see how the balls down the line with regard to baserunners are handled. It was mentioned earlier that the rule book takes care of ground rule doubles and overthrows and will take care of this. Well duh of course there will be rules but what will they be? Any ball down the line ruled fair is a double? What if it's a texas leaguer that just gets over the firstbaseman's glove, double? If thats a single where does it have to land to be a double? Or will it be up to the ump and his potential for human error to place the runners where he sees fit?
It's a can of worms I don't like that will lead to the same minutia that the NFL replay has created. Football move anyone? Or does that still exist?
Tuck rule?
Hey it's just my opinion and we're all entitled. It's just some want to think those that oppose only do so because of history and tradition when that's simply not true.