Replay is in the Air

[PeteBooth]

Seems like Windy may be on to something. Baseball is at least entertaining the idea of replay. Don't know if it will ever become a reality, but they are considering it.

Interesting how the wrote that West over-ruled Marsh even though it was clearly Marsh that changed his own call.

I am in favor of IR in determining whether a ball was a HR or not. On a HR or ground rule double for that matter, the ball is Dead, so you do not have to worry about continuous action.

The problem is if they start using IR on catch / No catch because you could have continuous action that is effected.

IMO, the real reason why MLU's will object to IR would be less assignments, meaning if IR were used no need to have 6 umpires in the Championship Series. Heck the Left field ump in the Yanks/Bosox series missed an obvious HR anyway, so if MLB needs more cameras, they can cut out the 6 man umpiring crews.

Baseball has changed over the years and the old adage "it's tradition" does not apply anymore. The field dimensions of the new ball parks changed - ie; shorter fences. The mound height was changed. We have the DH rule which IMO is simply ludicrous. You can use the DH in the American League park but not the National.

There used to be simply a National / American League with each winner playing for the world series. We now have Several Divisions plus a Wild card team. The players union is stronger than ever before.

Therefore, in a nutshell baseball has changed dramatically over the years so they should experiment with the use of replay at least on fair / Foul for HR's.

Pete Booth