[PeteBooth]

How bout on that close tag play at the plate, let's wait 30 seconds to 2 minutes while the play is debated on whether he was out or safe at the plate.

What do you think is happening now without IR.

On a close play at the plate where one of the players (F2 or the runner) thinks that they ABSOLUTELY made the play and the PU sees it different.

Here comes the manager (especially if it's Lou Pinella) and at least 5 minutes or longer go by and then someone gets tossed.

IR IMO might actually shorten the game instead of having the manager / players go on and on like the energizer bunny before they are finally tossed.

Also, I never said ALL plays be reviewed. The manager would gte a limit of challenges per game.

The only exception would be on a HR ruled Fair/ Foul or if it indeed was a HR or not. In those instances it would be an automatic review similar to football in the last 2 minutes of the game.

IMO, MLB umpires "opened up the flood gates" with their supposedly new found philosophy on "getting the call right" at all costs. If the umpires "left things alone" then this talk of IR might not come up.

In the last several years we have seen umpires huddle more then they ever did. Over-Turning one another without even being asked etc. So IMO it's the umpires themselves that are causing the problem. Not only are they causing a problem for themselves but look at what they are doing for us amateurs.

You can pretty much bet next year some coach will ask us to change a Foul call to fair.

Pete Booth