Comments on: An Argument Against Expanding the Use of Instant Replay http://www.baseballdailydigest.com/2009/10/16/an-argument-against-expanding-the-use-of-instant-replay/ Covering America's Favorite Pastime Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:04:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jcales http://www.baseballdailydigest.com/2009/10/16/an-argument-against-expanding-the-use-of-instant-replay/comment-page-1/#comment-3839 jcales Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:37:56 +0000 http://www.baseballdailydigest.com/blogs/2009/10/16/an-argument-against-expanding-the-use-of-instant-replay/#comment-3839 Really?? You are concerned about the 2 minutes it will take to check an instant replay on a potentially game changing play in a game where there is no time limit? Maybe you should be more concerned with how many times the catcher visits the mound in an inning or players calling for time out to throw off the rhythm of the pitcher. And please don't use the pathetic slippery slope argument...if we allow instant replay on this than pretty soon the entire game will be instant replay! The game has already changed a lot since it was originally played...the pitchers mound was lowered, more games have been added to the season, inter-league play, expanded playoffs, steroid use! Bottom line is if the Yankees want instant replay it will become a part of the game...they were the ones pushing for it on homeruns, which oddly enough you are okay with, yet not for other potentially game changing plays?? Your logic doesn't make sense! Personally I don't like the fact that umpires cannot be "fallible" in the game...it gives them too much power over the outcome, not to mention that people (umpires) can be biased and corrupt. Fair ball or foul ball and close plays at the bases should be reviewable...that is the bottom line. I love baseball and have watched it since I was a child, but to quote Bob Dylan "the times they are a changing" and baseball needs to catch up and stop living in the nostalgic past.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3839','jcales'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3839','jcales','Really?? You are concerned about the 2 minutes it will take to check an instant replay on a potentially game changing play in a game where there is no time limit? Maybe you should be more concerned with how many times the catcher visits the mound in an inning or players calling for time out to throw off the rhythm of the pitcher. And please don\'t use the pathetic slippery slope argument...if we allow instant replay on this than pretty soon the entire game will be instant replay! The game has already changed a lot since it was originally played...the pitchers mound was lowered, more games have been added to the season, inter-league play, expanded playoffs, steroid use! Bottom line is if the Yankees want instant replay it will become a part of the game...they were the ones pushing for it on homeruns, which oddly enough you are okay with, yet not for other potentially game changing plays?? Your logic doesn\'t make sense! Personally I don\'t like the fact that umpires cannot be \"fallible\" in the game...it gives them too much power over the outcome, not to mention that people (umpires) can be biased and corrupt. Fair ball or foul ball and close plays at the bases should be reviewable...that is the bottom line. I love baseball and have watched it since I was a child, but to quote Bob Dylan \"the times they are a changing\" and baseball needs to catch up and stop living in the nostalgic past.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Really?? You are concerned about the 2 minutes it will take to check an instant replay on a potentially game changing play in a game where there is no time limit? Maybe you should be more concerned with how many times the catcher visits the mound in an inning or players calling for time out to throw off the rhythm of the pitcher. And please don’t use the pathetic slippery slope argument…if we allow instant replay on this than pretty soon the entire game will be instant replay! The game has already changed a lot since it was originally played…the pitchers mound was lowered, more games have been added to the season, inter-league play, expanded playoffs, steroid use! Bottom line is if the Yankees want instant replay it will become a part of the game…they were the ones pushing for it on homeruns, which oddly enough you are okay with, yet not for other potentially game changing plays?? Your logic doesn’t make sense! Personally I don’t like the fact that umpires cannot be “fallible” in the game…it gives them too much power over the outcome, not to mention that people (umpires) can be biased and corrupt. Fair ball or foul ball and close plays at the bases should be reviewable…that is the bottom line. I love baseball and have watched it since I was a child, but to quote Bob Dylan “the times they are a changing” and baseball needs to catch up and stop living in the nostalgic past.
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