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Originally Posted by MikeStrybel

You have every right to your opinion. Try to have just one in a sentence though. You cloud every issue with non-sequitors and irrelevancies that it makes it difficult to read them. I'm not the first to tell you this. Enjoy posting; you've done it thousands of times on numerous boards to know that your musings are often met with eye rolls and contempt. I just offered advice on how you can clean them up for forums, that is all. I have no problem with you disagreeing as long as it is focused.

Honestly Mike, I really do not care what you think of my postings. Do not read them. I think I am doing just fine on and off this board with my opinions. And it appears my positions on this seem to be more in line with many here, unlike yourself who tends to piss many off every time you post. Not saying I am loved, but I have many that see things in a similar way.

Originally Posted by MikeStrybel

Seriously, what part of "instant replay will not remedy every bad call" is a puzzle to you? No one insists that it will fix all calls.

Interesting as I never said I was puzzled by this. If you listen to the MLB brass, they are not going to add it for plays we are talking about. That means you have to listen to all of what they say, not just the part that fits your position in this thread.

Originally Posted by MikeStrybel

TV deals have nothing to do with replay, it has to do with revenue generation. Every ball park has enough camera operators and remote capablilities already to handle future changes.

That is interesting. I guess it would not matter what company decides to cover the games and how much they put into the broadcast. MLB might have 30+ different contracts to cover games and the NFL or NBA has one or two. The NFL does not have the same game covered by two different companies for the local broadcasts. I think the NFL can and has controlled what they allow for their replay system.

Also the TV broadcasts of this game did not have the same angles of this play. They had to be put together by ESPN to show multiple angles to dispute that this call was incorrect.

Originally Posted by MikeStrybel

Stop. You are once again writing about something you know nothing about. Thousands of Pirates fans were watching and listening to that game. The TV commentator went nuts after the call and he didn't even have the replay yet. When he did, the radio booth guys next door could see it and added to the controversy. ESPN had nothing to do with it.

You are right ESPN did not show all the angles on SportsCenter that if you were watching a particular broadcast, you would not have seen the other feeds of the game. How in the world would I know that at all? Hmmmmm, maybe because the folks at ESPN made that clear to everyone watching SportsCenter or the First Take people the next day when IR was discussed as a remedy to "get this play right." Of course I have no idea what I am talking about. I guess you were in Atlanta and Pittsburgh at the same time. Or better yet you watched both games at the same time and you are the only one that can know this.

Originally Posted by MikeStrybel

Google it. There are several umpires who have addressed issues regarding blown calls this year.

Can you read? I did not say there was never an umpire that commented on a play, I said that there were many that were not addressed at all either way. And if you read the comments, it sounded like he was put up to it by a boss, not something he said on his own. If he clearly thought that he missed it, he would not have justified it by suggesting that only a part of the pants moved. I guess the only reason pants move on a sliding player is because someone touches them. No, not because the player was sliding or that someone that moves an object by them that nothing around them moved. I threw my arm past something hanging in my closet and the cloths moved, I guess I had to touch them?

Originally Posted by MikeStrybel

Irrelevant. MLB does.

And maybe one of the reasons the MLB is considered to have some of the worst officiating programs than the other major pro sports. And it is relevant because there are not many media people that only cover one sport are commenting on this issue.

Originally Posted by MikeStrybel

Seriously? He commented on the play after the game, when a pool reporter asked if he had seen the replay. Like Jim Joyce after the Gallaraga call, Meals stepped up and admitted his mistake. It was classy and commendable. The goofs that published his address and phone numbers, harrassed his family and threatened him are typical mouth breathing, knuckledraggers. If they got mad because he admitted his mistake then you are correct, but most educated souls think otherwise.

You must did not see those first comments. He did not just say "I blew it." He said he did not see a tag. Then the next day his comments were different and more descriptive and talking about pant leg moving. He did not see he clearly saw a tag or that there is no way he was correct. And if someone was admitting a mistake, he certainly did a lot of justification for why called what he did.

Oh you are right, only those that agreed with you are the most educated. I did not see people on ESPN today not only mock the "apology" or say that they would not have changed the call if they used the NFL model. But then again you do not know anything about other sports, so how are you more educated. Those “most educated only said “The ball beat the runner” and talked about the expected call, but you love that type of discussion I see.

Peace