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Originally Posted by dbacks
I dunno. Baseball will be a much more accurately called game with replay, but I have my doubts as to if that will make the game better. Human error, in my opinion, is part of the game.
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Well said.
The lore of the game will take a huge hit if/when instant replay is brought in. How upset are fans & players going to be if replay overturns an incorrect decision or justifies a correct one? How upset would they be if they had a bad call against them? What would it mean to rivalries in general and in specific the next time that team is in town?
And, as we've seen in the NFL (pats v. raiders comes to mind), when they decide to screw someone (or, more accurately, when the spread needs a backdoor cover and they call upon some arcane, never previously enforced by-law in the rules to justifiy their screwing) it really makes me suspend my belief that I'm seeing a "true" competition.