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Around The Bases Vol XII: It’s Time For Expanded Instant Replay Already
#1
How many more games have to be effected by bad calls before baseball does
the right thing? How many more players and teams have to be jobbed by the
over-inflated ego of an umpire who refuses to walk into a booth to ask for
an instant replay? How many more times is the wrong team going to outright
win a game due to the refusal to use already existing technology that
every other sport in the country is currently using, and using pretty damn
well?

Last night we got the all too frequent chance to witness another
opportunity where the use of instant replay in a major league baseball
game could have made the difference between a team winning or losing. In
this case, it was between the Oakland A’s and the Minnesota Twins.

Read more at:
Around The Bases Vol XII: It’s Time For Expanded Instant Replay Already
http://www.tmrzoo.com/?p=3209
There's no crying in baseball
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#2
if you have the technology, why not use it?

or do you think it'd drag the games out longer?
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#3
I like the human error aspect of the game.
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#4
Walk Off HR Wrote:I like the human error aspect of the game.

That's great for players, but the umpires should WANT to make the right call, and use whatever means necessary to do

so.

Welcome to our site, by the way. Good to have you contributing already.
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