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  • bravosfan
    All Star
    • Jul 2002
    • 5184

    #1

    Instant Replay starting Thursday

    Major League Baseball reversed its long-standing opposition to instant replay and will allow umpires to check video on home run calls in series that start Thursday.

    The start date comes nearly 10 months after general managers voted 25-5 to use the technology, and following MLB agreements with the unions for umpires and for players.
    http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3554357
  • av7
    Hall Of Fame
    • Dec 2007
    • 11408

    #2
    Re: Instant Replay starting Thursday

    As long as it stays for fair/foul and homeruns I'm fine.

    Replay to judge plays at a base better not be included down the road, it's like the strike zone imo with an ump right on top of it
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    • RAZRr1275
      All Star
      • Sep 2007
      • 9918

      #3
      Re: Instant Replay starting Thursday

      It's about time.
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      • CMH
        Making you famous
        • Oct 2002
        • 26203

        #4
        Re: Instant Replay starting Thursday

        This is the only way they should ever use instant replay.

        Some home runs, especially those near foul poles are too difficult to judge from a distance. Human eyes need the help.

        Safe/Out, Ball/Strike: That must stay the same and should never include the aid of technology. Technology should only come in play when reviewing the calls after a game, so that umpires can become better.
        "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

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        • joshuar9476
          MVP
          • Feb 2006
          • 1880

          #5
          Re: Instant Replay starting Thursday

          i'd like to see calls at the plate included too ....
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          • CMH
            Making you famous
            • Oct 2002
            • 26203

            #6
            Re: Instant Replay starting Thursday

            Originally posted by joshuar9476
            i'd like to see calls at the plate included too ....
            I get it.

            But, I think once you open that door then you have to have video for calls at 1B. Then that means you have to have it for steals at 2B. All of a sudden, now the players will negotiate video for check swings and borderline called third strikes.

            There is a legit reason for the homerun video. They are not always in the best position to see the entire play. But, at homeplate, the umpire should always be right there on top of the plate. At that point, it has to be his call.
            "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

            "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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            • Sandman42
              Hall Of Fame
              • Aug 2004
              • 15186

              #7
              Re: Instant Replay starting Thursday

              First replay just used in the Yankees/Rays game. Came to a conclusion pretty quick. Couldn't really tell if they got it right though, because ESPN had a horrible angle at the home run.
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              • sbauer318
                MVP
                • Mar 2004
                • 2511

                #8
                Re: Instant Replay starting Thursday

                Originally posted by Sandman42
                First replay just used in the Yankees/Rays game. Came to a conclusion pretty quick. Couldn't really tell if they got it right though, because ESPN had a horrible angle at the home run.
                They had two horrible angles. One angle they keep on repeating is the one where it appears to go right over top of the fair pole. That angle though is up the first base line.

                Can we get a camera on top of the pole like the camera on the NFL goal post? If the ball goes higher than the pole, then it's just so difficult to tell. We need more interesting cameras.
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