The argument against instant replay is the delay of the game. Technology is so good, meaning so FAST and of high visual resolution, there is no excuse for them not coming up with a workable system for instant replay. Baseball people are slow to make changes in their game, which I think is a shame. They should take the lead from the NFL and be a little more creative and experimental with things. Wouldn’t hurt.

I think the hardest part of the game to do well is call balls and strikes. Umpires seem pretty good and consistent with the high/low aspect of the strike zone, but the inside/outside part is pretty screwed up. They should at least experiment with having the home plate umpire call balls and strikes off a video monitor, with the assistance of something graphic like those pitch track things or the strike zone boxes, etc. The technology is there; they should experiment and see if they could make the game better that way.

“To Girardi’s point, where do we stop? I can’t deny that was an awful call…the twins got robbed”

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Being on the receiving end of a botched call can be quite a blow. But the Twins then caught a big break, which they failed to capitalize on, when they had the bases loaded with no outs. Yes, it’s hypothetical nonsense but here’s a question: would you rather have a lead-off double or the bases loaded w/no outs? Which is the better opportunity?

By time Orlando Cabrera told the twins bench what had ahappened down the line, three pitches had been thrown, so replay would not have reversed the call

To Girardi’s point, where do we stop? Aren’t trapped balls vs catches even more critical then what we saw last night? What about close plays at the plate? Phantom tags? On and on…I can;t deny that was an awful call..but hw would replay have reversed something not argued until TBS came up with a replay after the next pitch?

Also, am I in the minority in thinking that did not effect the game? I really think Kubel may have walked if that was a double

Again, I am not a Yankee homer. the twins got robbed, but instant replay on a larged scale? We could have 6 hour games!

60 years or so ago, 95% of baseball was against integration.
It was a radical change. It broke tradition.
It would ruin the game. It would cause all kinds of havoc.

Not everything old is tradition. Some things are just old.

- Who’s got a better shot at closing out the series if neither event happens tomorrow … that’s why i’m gonna go ahead and say that an Angels win is very very important.

Sounds like they need a counting lesson in hatched chickens…

When they built domed stadiums, they had to create new ground rules for balls that hit the structure. In Tampa Bay, there are different rules depending on where the ball hits.

It’s ain’t rocket science. We walked on the Moon 40 years ago. We have split the atom. It is really that hard to create new rules to deal with video replay?

And there doesn’t have to be additional delays. How long did it take the announcers and the millions of TV watchers to know that ball was fair? Unfortunately, the way they review HRs is slow and does interrupt the flow of the game. There are ways to incorporate video replay without slowing the game down and without eliminating the Umps.

Some of the things that define sports are fairness and the victory going to who earned it. Video replay will only help facilitate these things.