It is now Time for instant replay

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by PeteBooth

This is against my better judgement as I don't normally respond to posts with name calling as I do not really care what people think etc. but let's make some assumptions here.

Let's go back to the "golden age of baseball" and we had an internet Forum and I posted the following.

Wouldn't it be great if baseball adopted a DH for F1 and we split the divisions so that we have wild card teams etc. etc.

The response to that Post "back in the day" would be received the way my post is being received, yet look what happend.

Regardless of what you or other posters think about IR, eventually baseball will have some form of it. It's happened in other sports and baseball will eventually "cave in" ESPECIALLY if the Players union vote it in.

Therefore when baseball finally adopts some form of replay what will you say then.

Pete Booth

Maybe I went too far implying that you are an idiot. But this idea is idiotic, and the analogies you draw are completely incongruous. All of the ideas you mentiones may have been semi-radical if considered 50 years ago - but none involved the unravelling of a play and the guesswork required to "fix" whatever errors are discovered.

IR is NOT feasible for baseball except in a VERY small minority of plays... and for those plays I have no problem with it. The analogy to football is absurd as well. You'll note from the IR rule in football that there are a number of exceptions - times when IR is not allowed by rule. The reason for this is that the plays in the exception are "un-unravelable" to invent a word. In baseball, MOST plays would fit into this category, and the exception list would be Far Far greater than the plays not excepted.