Changed calls because of TV

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Originally posted by mbyron
The best counter-argument is: the pro umps are so damn good, they almost always get it right already, even when you thought they booted it when you watched it live. Pro umps are much better (have a much lower "error percentage") than pro referees in football. So even a small disruption is not worth it, since there's just not that much to correct.

You can not compare the "error percentages" of football and baseball officials. In a baseball contest, the calls of the officials are fairly limited to safe/out, fair/foul ball/strike. Football officials could call a foul on every scrimmage play. Of course when you notice that 3 fouls should have been called on a certain play and only 1 was, that is a 67% error rate. Football is a totaly different game than baseball and they can not be compared in the way you have tried to.