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Originally Posted by LakeErieUmp
You can't talk about IR in football and compare it to baseball. Football uses professional doctors and lawyers who only referee part-time twenty games max a season. Baseball uses professional full-time umpires.
There is no sport with professional officials who has instituted IR for basic plays.
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Football officials do not work games every single day. Football officials work once a week. Unless you are going to hold every football official in a training facility, then you cannot compare what football officials do to other sports.
Also you are right; there are no basic plays that can be changed through NFL or NCAA football games. You cannot review any penalty or many judgment calls. And when the whistle blows, in many cases nothing can be reviewed. In the baseball situation we are talking about, the umpire called a foul ball. I am not sure how you can go back and do that after everyone hears the ball is dead. To me this is the equivalent of the whistle being blown dead in football and the defense running the ball back for a TD (while the ball is dead). Then coming back and saying, "We know the ball was dead, but we are going to award the TD anyway." That would be wrong in that case, it was wrong to come back and change a foul ball in this case. Too many other things can happen. I agree with certain calls we should be willing to give information or take information, but just because someone thinks it is a good idea in one case, does not make every situation appropriate to use this philosophy.
I do not think anyone has ever taken an objection to deciding a foul ball that could have been a home run to be over turned. The ball is already dead and someone could have easily had another angle or offer information to get that right. The next thing we are going to start doing is having base umpires change balls and strikes. Why not, you might just get it right.
Peace