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Old Tue Nov 06, 2007, 01:14pm
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Instant replay--maybe.

Recommended for "boundary" calls only......

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3096923

Selig to decide.
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Old Tue Nov 06, 2007, 01:21pm
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Selig to decide.
That's not how I read this line:

"A final vote could take place at the baseball's winter meetings in December."
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Old Tue Nov 06, 2007, 01:25pm
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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???
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Old Tue Nov 06, 2007, 01:33pm
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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?
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Old Tue Nov 06, 2007, 01:47pm
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That's not how I read this line:

"A final vote could take place at the baseball's winter meetings in December."
Just read another story that said if Selig approves, he then has to run it by the owners. If they say "go for it", both the players association and the umpires association also have to approve it. It sounds like the process will take about eleventeen years.
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Old Tue Nov 06, 2007, 01:49pm
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Hmmm,

"Selig to decide."

To the contrary . . . On the "Mike Tirico Show" Selig said that he had stepped completely aside and the decision will be made by a simple vote of the owners.

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Old Tue Nov 06, 2007, 01:54pm
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"Selig to decide."

To the contrary . . . On the "Mike Tirico Show" Selig said that he had stepped completely aside and the decision will be made by a simple vote of the owners.

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Old Tue Nov 06, 2007, 02:41pm
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"Selig to decide."

To the contrary . . . On the "Mike Tirico Show" Selig said that he had stepped completely aside and the decision will be made by a simple vote of the owners.

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Tee, ESPN is now reporting that the players' union and the umpires would also have to approve the change.

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The plan needs approval from the players' association and umpires.
For a dead-ball fair/foul call such as one over the fence, I could see this getting approved. Hard to see why the players' union wouldn't approve it. Some umps will probably have "slippery slope" concerns, though, so perhaps not.
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Solomon also said that to speed up games, baseball was considering limiting the number of times a hitter could step out of the batter's box during an at-bat and the number of times any player could visit the mound.
Puh-leeze.

How about you decrease the time between innings to 45 seconds. That would take close to an hour off each game.
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Old Tue Nov 06, 2007, 03:01pm
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Puh-leeze.

How about you decrease the time between innings to 45 seconds. That would take close to an hour off each game.

you cant sell ads that way!
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Old Tue Nov 06, 2007, 08:22pm
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Not only will the player's union have to rule on this, in order to implement any video replay would require a re-write of several rules in section 9! Seeing as how normal rules cannot get past the player's union, I highly doubt that video replay will get in.
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Old Tue Nov 06, 2007, 09:15pm
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Not only will the player's union have to rule on this, in order to implement any video replay would require a re-write of several rules in section 9! Seeing as how normal rules cannot get past the player's union, I highly doubt that video replay will get in.
The Player's Union will have no problem okaying these replay rules,,,,since the changes highly favor them. After all, who would not want a called double turned into a home run, or a called foul become the same? Replay would hardly work the other way.
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Old Tue Nov 06, 2007, 09:34pm
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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.
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Old Tue Nov 06, 2007, 09:45pm
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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.
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They weren't making $300,000 in 1999.
But they were making well into the six figures.
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