I hate it.
So end baseball.
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.
They’ve done the impossible....come up with a replay rule that is even more screwed-up than the NFL’s.
As if three hours isn’t long enough for a baseball game.
Will push average game times to over 4 hours.
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.
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.
replay ping
I guess the only good thing about this is they limit it to two challenges (4 max), so hopefully it won’t do too much to the game.
Spring Training should be fun as they iron out the kinks.
What’s important is getting the call correct, but the replay system has to be quick enough. The review should be limited to 90 seconds, like in the NFL.
Teams will be allowed to have a club employee monitoring video and communicating with the manager whether or not to challenge. Both the home and road teams must have equal access to all video, but no additional electronic equipment will be allowed. Camera angles in all parks will also be standardized.