Instant replay--maybe.

[oyaisee]

Wow all those guys are going to get paid a hell of allot more! The will use this as an negotiation tool.

Maybe the pension will go up and some of the guys can afford to retire???

[Rich]

Originally Posted by oyaisee

Wow all those guys are going to get paid a hell of allot more! The will use this as an negotiation tool.

Maybe the pension will go up and some of the guys can afford to retire???

Afford to retire? Making $300K should encourage sound investing, shouldn't it?

[lawump]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Afford to retire? Making $300K should encourage sound investing, shouldn't it?

Not to hijack a thread, but...

you would think making that amount would encourage sound investing...but it frankly shocked me how many of the umpires who lost their jobs in 1999 "fell on hard times". (And I'm not talking about the ones who had only been in MLB for a few years...I'm talking about long time vets). It seems some do not invest well enough.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by lawump

Not to hijack a thread, but...

you would think making that amount would encourage sound investing...but it frankly shocked me how many of the umpires who lost their jobs in 1999 "fell on hard times". (And I'm not talking about the ones who had only been in MLB for a few years...I'm talking about long time vets). It seems some do not invest well enough.

They weren't making $300,000 in 1999.

[lawump]

Originally Posted by GarthB

They weren't making $300,000 in 1999.

But they were making well into the six figures.

[canadaump6]

We cannot ruin the tradition of baseball by changing calls based on what an instant replay shows. That is for hockey only. I wouldn't mind though if they showed replays of a close call; more entertainment for the fans, thus more revenue, thus higher umpire salaries. Everybody wins.

[DonInKansas]

Originally Posted by canadaump6

We cannot ruin the tradition of baseball by changing calls based on what an instant replay shows. That is for hockey only.

And football and tennis and basketball and damn near every other sport.........

With the stupidity that is the alignment of baseball stadiums and their funky signs/colors/walls and ground rules, I'm all right with getting it right for HR and fair/foul calls at the pole. Using "tradition" to excuse something that can be fixed easily is idiotic. The replay will take less time than the manager's tirade and subsequent ejection over the blown call.