MLB GMs vote in favor of replay system

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
Granted he's arguing about full-fledged replay systems, but his argument makes sense. There is little room for replay in baseball and even if they start using it to track HRs then fans will start demanding it be used to determine whether runners are safe or not. That can't happen because it will ruin the sport.

I've seen much more tangential / stupid posts on Anandtech.

What are you talking about? They have replay in the NFL and it's for certain things only. It is very clearly laid out, you can review this and this, but not this. The same thing will happen here. It's not as if every single play is going to be reviewable.

Also, this is not the freaking 70s or 80s here where you would read about the games the next morning in the paper. Every single play is dissected by the media and fans pretty much instantly, all over the world, with video replay at everyone's fingertips, so for these very easy calls to be missed by the professionals is just a black eye on the sport and implementing replay to help eliminate these blown calls is a good thing.

Could it go too far? Sure. Will it? No, the owners, commissioner, players, and everyone else would not let that happen just like in other sports with instant replay.

KT

 

[imported_Imp]

Yes on big plays, no on strikes/balls. I remember a triple play last(-last?) season that got appealed cause the ball hit the ground first instead of being caught. As for general safe/outs at bases, this would help a lot cause a lot of the time they get it wrong and the manager ends up bitching for 10 minutes and gets thrown out. You can probably balance that time with replay checking time.

 

[cubby1223]

necro bump

http://www.usatoday.com/sports...-replay-proposal_N.htm

Word is MLB is planing to start this up in the majors as soon as August for homerun calls only. All I can say is, it's about damn time. When millions of home viewers know the correct call nearly instantaneously, it's a shame the umps haven't had access to this before. Just have a 5th man in a video booth relaying the correct call to the crew chief, and it's a heck of a lot quicker than when the two managers come out and each get their 5 minutes of arguing in.

 

[videogames101]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: tfinch2
I hate replay systems in all sports. Let the ref make the call and get on with the game.

Yup.

You get some bad calls in your favor, you get some bad calls against you. That's how it is. Baseball is a gentleman's game. Don't mess with the most preserved, classic sport.

you must be kidding?