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MLB Expands Instant Replay to Let Managers Challenge Calls
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| 1/16/14
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Posted on 01/16/2014 12:22:27 PM PST by ColdOne
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:22:27 PM PST
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ColdOne
To: ColdOne
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:23:14 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: ColdOne
To: ColdOne
Baseball really should be electronically officiated, there’s nothing going on in the game that couldn’t be handled with RFIDs, pressure sensors, and Hawk-Eyes. Then there’d be no need for reviews, and they could fire most of their terrible umps.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:26:59 PM PST
by
discostu
(I don't meme well.)
To: discostu
Joe West being on the top of the list to be fired first!!!
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:33:28 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
To: ColdOne
They’ve done the impossible....come up with a replay rule that is even more screwed-up than the NFL’s.
To: ColdOne
As if three hours isn’t long enough for a baseball game.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:34:42 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; darkangel82; Perdogg; AuH2ORepublican
I like it, so many bad calls.
I think the crew chief should be able to challenge any call though not just after the 7th inning, runs scored or not scored in the first inning count just as much as any other.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:36:07 PM PST
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: ColdOne
Will push average game times to over 4 hours.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:36:35 PM PST
by
AU72
To: dfwgator
I agree. It takes something away from the game.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:37:11 PM PST
by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: Impy; dfwgator; NFHale; campaignPete R-CT; darkangel82; Perdogg; AuH2ORepublican
Agree, but are all MLB games going to become 4 hour marathons? Every game becoming BOS-NYY isn’t a positive.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:44:37 PM PST
by
GOPsterinMA
(You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
To: discostu
Baseball really should be electronically officiated, theres nothing going on in the game that couldnt be handled with RFIDs, pressure sensors, and Hawk-Eyes. Then thered be no need for reviews, and they could fire most of their terrible umps.
I've been saying that since the 1970's at least where we can use electronic referees by doing what you said above. I'd like to see it expanded to football and hockey.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:45:57 PM PST
by
Nowhere Man
(Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
To: ColdOne
My guess is there will be very few challenges made by managers. I’m thinking the repercussions of showing up and ump won’t be worth one or two overturned calls.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:48:07 PM PST
by
WinMod70
To: ColdOne
Good,
Nothing ruins the game more than your team losing over a bad call. Ask the fans of the 1985 Cardinals.
I don’t blame the umps for bad calls, they are human, the game is very fast and I am amazed they don’t make even more mistakes.
However, this system SUXXXXXX.
Football’s IR has become a game with in the game, Baseball should be like Hockey and have another ump in booth that can over ride calls as need be.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:49:13 PM PST
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: WinMod70
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:52:51 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
To: discostu
Have you ever seen what Curt Shilling thinks of that?
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:53:12 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
To: dfwgator
Let’s shoot for 12 hours...just like cricket!
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:54:08 PM PST
by
gr8eman
(How ya doin Bob?...Bitchen!)
To: WinMod70
I doubt it, because the first question any manager would get with the press is “Why didn’t you challenge that play?”.
Football coaches don’t worry about Refs taking it out on them, and refs in football have a lot more lee-way in what they call or not
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:55:35 PM PST
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: qam1
Ask Armando Galarraga.
He is now back in the minors and his one shot at making the history books was thrown away by Jim Joyce not doing his job.
Personally I like the idea of electronic umpires. The human ones even when they are paying attention tend to be erratic in their calls.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:59:22 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
To: dfwgator
As if three hours isnt long enough for a baseball game.Three hours? Last season the AZ Diamondbacks played 78 extra innings. And my FIL watched every stinking game they played. I was rooting for them to NOT make the playoffs so I could shut the TV off for a few months.
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posted on
01/16/2014 1:00:19 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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