This is my opinion on sports. I will mostly be giving my opinion on New York sports. My intention with this sports blog is just to give my opinion and maybe throw around some questions if not answering them. If any opportunities come along from doing this, I'd relish them because I have a passion for sports.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
MLB replay
It was finally decided that Major League Baseball (MLB) would agree to expanded replay for the 2014 season. I always felt that since we have the technology, it should be used to get plays right. I watch baseball games every day and there is almost always a disputed call on the base paths. For years they've only been reviewing home run calls, and that took a couple minutes because three umpires would run off the field to look at a replay monitor. Now baseball officials have devised a plan to review any call on the field other than balls and strikes. (they will still be a judgement call by an umpire, and an automatic ejection for arguing) Their will now be a replay room in New York, where all the replays will be looked at, (not by an umpire on the field of play) the reports are that this (calling for replay in New York) will take less time than sending umpire's off the field to look at a replay. Managers will now have more to do during games, they will have two challenges for the first six innings of a game and then one more from the sixth on, managers will now have to think about which calls the umpire got wrong and they might want to challenge, a little gamesmanship might be involved now. Umpires for the most part do a good job calling a game but they do miss fair/foul calls, trapped balls and plays on the base paths, not only will this allow the two teams to get the call right but it will give the umpires something to check themselves against. (sometimes it is just an educated guess because they are blocked out of the play)
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