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Baseball, which always has one eye to the past, was successfully looking into its future. And then replay came along. It was only natural that baseball would one day adopt replay. It's a practice ...
Notoriously slow to embrace change, Major League Baseball is unveiling a replay system it says will be the most expansive of any sport's and perhaps put an end to missed calls by umpires.
As much as I admire Tony LaRussa and Joe Torre, former managers on the replay committee, this proposal will not help baseball. The most excruciatingly boring aspect of NFL games is the replay.
Except when it doesn’t. Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, declaring that his view of instant replay has “evolved,” plans to propose expanding the practice beyond home run calls ...
All this talk about bringing instant replay to baseball neglects one piece of, as the football techs like to say, indisputable visual evidence. Baseball already uses instant replay. When a plate ...
How to Fix Baseball’s Replay Mess Steal tennis’s replay system: Make the players challenge and keep managers off the field. By John Culhane April 16, 2014 11:23 PM ...
Baseball’s installation of instant replay Thursday is about more than an ancient sport finally embracing the wonders of technology, It is also about one of the crudest sports finally embracing t ...
But the error, and others, went uncorrected, and Major League Baseball’s limited policy on instant replay remains an issue for fans and viewers as the Yankees, who prevailed against the Twins ...
Early this year, Major League Baseball introduced dramatically expanded instant replay rules. With a few exceptions — notably, balls and strikes — managers can challenge any umpire’s call on ...
I would like to believe that baseball will expand the replay to determine close plays at any of the four bases, but if it isn't expanded then that's perfectly fine too. Yet, when there are calls ...
For the first time Tuesday, baseball general managers recommended instant replay be used to help umpires make difficult decisions. The recommendation, by a 25-5 vote, was limited to boundary calls ...
What manager or player is going to get bent out of shape over a call that they know can be figured out totally correctly via replay? Can you imagine baseball without Lou Pinella, Ozzie Guillen ...