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Originally Posted by bwburke94
This would be historical revisionism at its worst.
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Agree. It's opening Pandora's Box.
The Pitch comes to mind. They say that "missed call" changed the course of the 1998 World Series. Would we now micro-analyze that video, declare it a strike and strikeout, and thereby nullify the result of that Series? It cannot be replayed from that point, of course.
The time to have overturned that call, given the lack of play review in 1998, would have been that evening or the next day but imagine the turmoil it would have caused. The game needing to be replayed; the telecast rescheduled; subsequent statistics wiped out. Chaos.
This discussion gives me new appreciation of play review and automated umpiring/refereeing. The time to overturn a call is
at the moment, not later on. Bad calls are part of history and should remain so. Here's to not allowing them to continue, however.