Minister of Truth
Practically Perfect
Yeah, Grind, where is your precious replay now?
As the A's-Indians game showed instant replay does not end manager/umpire confrontations.
It's baseball.....don't make a mountain out of a mole hill. This happens like what? Once every 2 or 3 thousand games?
Let the umpires do their jobs without forcing them to be paralyzed to make a call like the NFL. They are the best in the business, and they sometimes make a mistake. That's LIFE.
To beef up the ability to make calls, baseball adds extra umpires on the foul lines in the playoffs. Last year in the 'playoff' between the Cards and the Braves. On a pop up to shallow left field 'infield fly rule' was called by the umpire on the left field line. During a normal game, there would be no umpire in left field and the 3rd base umpire would make that call, and from his perspective I highly doubt he would have made an IFR call. It had an effect on the outcome.
The GAME is just fine. It doesn't need to be computerized.
The best story in baseball to come along in ages that showed the human side of the game was over a HUGE blown call.
On June 2, 2010, umpire James Joyce made an incorrect call, as the first base umpire, which cost Armando Galarraga then of the Tigers a perfect game. Joyce tearfully spoke with the media following the game and admitted he made a mistake: "I just cost the kid a perfect game". Joyce and Galarraga received praise throughout the sports world for the manner in which they handled the situation; reflecting an earlier ESPN poll, players such as Mariano Rivera spoke on the record about Joyce's superb career of umpiring.
In 2011, Joyce, Galarraga, and author Daniel Paisner collaborated on a book based on the game, Nobody's Perfect: Two Men, One Call, and a Game for Baseball History.
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
The next day, Galarraga handed in the lineup card...
![]()
![]()
![]()
I am rather indifferent. If they can create a system that would cause little delay then, fine, but I don't see a great need for it either. There will still be missed calls anyway and I am not so sure it would reduce them significantly.
I don't care what you say, your entire argument boils down to "I want error injected into the game"
My argument boils down to this: major league baseball has been doing just fine for 137 years without your absolutist engineering. The game survived one Kenesaw Mountain Landis, we don't need another.
There are nuances,
traditions,
human factors,
and yes, even flaws that make baseball endearing,
things that make baseball the greatest game on earth.
My argument boils down to this: major league baseball has been doing just fine for 137 years without your absolutist engineering. The game survived one Kenesaw Mountain Landis, we don't need another. There are nuances, traditions, human factors, and yes, even flaws that make baseball endearing, things that make baseball the greatest game on earth.
If you need to apply your absolutist engineering to something, stick with football.
it survived, it can be better. you are keeping it unneccesarily handicapped in the sake of tradition and a marriage to error.
what does that even mean? Other than human error? Hmmm I am reading the crowd, I am going to call this wrong.
sticking with tradition for traditions sake is not a compelling argument.
errors.
no.
baseball can still be great, you can still have umps, but that doesn't mean you should willfully prevent progress.
I want the best team to win, I don't want the worst team to benefit from human error when it can be prevented. There is no logical reason to leave it in place other than to explicitly say you want to inject human error into the game.
what's so great about the human element? all it introduces is human error. Umps are usually faceless blobs on the field anyway, seldom with a personality. This whole "human element" argument is complete bullshit. you are a dinosaur. thankfully as the tech improves your kind will be put out to pasture.
I am. Get ready for four-hour games and more outrage when umpires screw up while utilizing replay.