The arguments against using instant-replay to overturn calls in baseball are dumb. We have the technology, and in a sport like Baseball, where the action isn't fluid, it wouldn't that difficult to integrate it into the game. Pete Gratoff
disagrees. Let's find out why:
On Wednesday morning, umpire Jerry Meals called the Braves’ Julio Lugo safe at the plate although he appeared to be tagged out by Pittsburgh’s Michael McKenry in the bottom of the 19th inning as Atlanta won 4-3.
Pretty atrocious call. (Here's a
link if you haven't seen it.)
The play looked a lot like Leslie Nielsen’s umpiring in “The Naked Gun.”
I see that you agree. (Here's a
link for that too.)
Not surprisingly, there has been a push for more replay in baseball in the wake of that game, which started Tuesday night.
That's a good idea, right?
That’s a bad idea.
Oh.
Not sure why, but I'm sure you provide solid reasons to back-up your claim, and, even if I disagree, I'll still be able to see your side of the argument, and we'll laugh and laugh about how we were arguing over something so trivial, and we'll go see a movie or something because we really don't hang out enough anymore, you know?
Baseball fans love to wax poetically (yawn)
No? You're just going to make fun of baseball fans? All right, then.
about how the game has no time limit, and while that’s true, it’s what makes the game so inaccessible to fans today.
How will they know when the game's going to end? HOW WILL THEY KNOW?
Football and basketball have surpassed baseball as the national pastimes in this country, because the action is quick, there’s usually a lot of scoring and you know there will be a winner in the time you’ve allotted to watch the game.
What does that even mean? "In the time you've allotted to watch the game?"
Football games have a one-hour-long clock, yet the games take
three hours to play.
Clearly, the fact that these sports have clocks itself does not allow you to allot a certain amount of time to watch the games. You just have to know how long the games usually take. Something that you can easily do in baseball even though it does not use a clock. (By the way, baseball games, on average, also last around
three-hours.)
Not so for baseball, as we saw early Wednesday as the Pirates and Braves traded zeroes through extra innings.
Extra innings. Overtime. Football and basketball have these too.
If there had been replay, how long would it have taken to correct the call and continue the game?
I don't know -- probably just as long as it took the Pirates' Manager to go out and argue the call with the umpire.
Even another five minutes added to a baseball game is too much.
Wow. It seems to me that you really don't like baseball that much.
Baseball has replay to make sure home-run calls are correct. That’s enough. Baseball is too long and slow to add even more replay to the mix.
Home-run calls: OK.
Making sure calls at home-plate are correct, calls that are equally as important as home-run calls: Don't you guys understand that baseball is already too long and boring! AHHH!
Here's what I think. You obviously don't enjoy baseball games. So stop watching them, and stop writing about them. That way, everybody will be happy.
