Mets / Braves - Top 5th

[fitump56]

Originally Posted by Dakota

PMFBI... As a fan of MLB, I disagree strongly that replay should be used. I also do not like the use of the QuesTec for controlling the strike zone.

One of the reasons (IMO) baseball is such a good game is due to the officiating by completely human umpires, including their skills and their approaches to the game.

If using technology to call the "perfect" game was such a good thing, why did Curt Schilling take a bat to one of the QuesTec cameras recently?

If Curt Schilling is your Poster Boi for "why no technology in baseball officiating" God Help The Old Guard.

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by fitump56

If Curt Schilling is your Poster Boi for "why no technology in baseball officiating" God Help The Old Guard.

I clearly identified my perspective on this as a fan, not a member of the guard, old or new. My point with Schilling was simple, but apparently not simple enough for you to comprehend. Umpires don't like the "technology" solution. Neither do pitchers. Why? It removes the human element (or in the case of QuesTec, just distorts it, since the technology still requires a different human to calibrate it, and the umpires and players recognize that each ball park calibrates it differently).

And, neither does this fan like the technology-supplied solution.

Getting the technically correct call 100% of the time by using technology is not a good thing, IMO. I disagree at this fundamental level. 100% correct calls enforced by automatons is not the holy grail of the ideal baseball game.

Anyone who thinks the "technology" will end with QuesTec and video replay fails to recognize the real trend. Eventually, the technology will be there to use electronic sensors to make sure many more parts of the game are done 100% "correctly." Will this make baseball a better game? Absolutely NOT!

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Dakota

That's rich. Pot, meet kettle.

Machine-generated accuracy (whatever percentage) has not improved baseball and increasing the percentage further with machines will not improve baseball. The "uniform" strike zone is also a myth, whether in QuesTec parks or not.

You can argue all you want about what MLB wants. With that farce of a pretend commissioner, what MLB wants has not been in the best interests of baseball for some time now.

Excellent post, start to finish.

Interesting that people are against athletes using technology (is steroids not a form of technology?) to improve their part of the game, but all for replay to improve the umpires part of the game?

I say, if you rule out steroids, you HAVE to rule out replay.

I am sticking with that.