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Originally posted by PeteBooth
While I applaud the men in blue for getting the calls right here's my problem.
Why have 6 Umpires? I could not understand why the LFU didn't get into proper position in the first place and see the ball clearly go out of the park. After all what other responsibilities does the LFU have?
Last Nights game along with many others IMO should proove once and for all to MLB that Instant Replay is desperately needed. The technology is there use it. All other major sports use it and so should baseball.
The games between the BOSOX amd Yanks have been marathons anyway. Also, the call would have been reversed quicker than the umpires getting together had replay been used as it was a "no brainer" of a call. I think MLB should at least experiement with the idea especially to determine if a ball was a HR or not.
In Summary, I would start with using replay to determine if a ball was a HR or not and go from there.
Pete Booth
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The problem is (and you know this as well as I do) it will never stop there. The Managers have been trained to whine about every little thing. You think that Game 5 ALCS was a marathon? That's the way that ALL the games will be with IR. Look, it's bad enough that there has to be a huddle with every important play. Now add IR and we'll never get out of the 2nd inning!
How about this - let's work on our positioning, our judgement and the renderng of said judgement and reserve the IR and huddles for football?