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Monday, October 15, 2012
"Should MLB install more instant replay?" In the press conference last night after the ALCS, Yankees/Tigers game 2, Joe Girardi said, with conviction, that MLB has to make a change and install instant replay for more than just home-runs. In light of the New York Yankees long-time success, I think that statement is a testament to typical behavior of a sore loser. It wasn't long ago, in a couple post-season situations involving the Yankees, replay certainly would've reversed a few outcomes that favored the Yankees themselves. I don't recall anyone in the New York organization supporting nor requesting replay in MLB in those particular times. I suppose when it benefits your team it is acceptable, but when the shoe is on the other foot, uh-oh!! Maybe since the New York Yankees have said it, something may happen now. I agree that MLB should use replay, it would minimize human error by the umpires. In the defense of the umpires, it is extremely difficult to make most of the calls they are required to make, and no one individual can be perfect in that split-second they have to view, judge, and react on close plays. A prime example of a situation that desperately needed replay in baseball took place a week ago... remember the "Outfield Fly Rule" in the St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves play-in game? Who's to say the Braves would've won the game? However, the scenario may have put the game in a much different position, had a replay system reversed that call. I think the Little League World Series replay seems to work pretty darn good. It is Accurate, it is Fast, and takes much less time than a manager arguing the calls, sometimes leading to the manager and sometimes players being ejected from games... leaving the fans and teams in a state of dismay for the remainder of the games. As a fan I would rather see the calls be made correctly the first time, having the outcomes of games be as certain as possible, for what has transpired in the game itself. Didn't we learn the importance of correct, accurate rulings by the sport's officials during the replacement referees short stint in the NFL? I agree with Joe Girardi, I just don't like hearing him step-up for replay after it hurts his own team, instead of when the Yankees, especially, have benefited from the non-existence of replay in the past. I have watched MLB go thru some very sad times under the current reign of Commissioner Bud Selig, who said in 2009 that he would step down as commissioner after the 2012 season... we'll see if he honors that statement. He has definitely ruined a few things in baseball during his tenure. An All-Star game ending in a tie... then attempting to do whatever he was attempting to do, he made it so that the Home Field advantage of the World Series is to be dictated by the All-Star game outcome. Unbelievably idiotic! If the A.L. team that gets to the World Series has a better record than the N.L. team that gets there, the A.L. team should have the earned home field advantage, it works that way in every other playoff round. MLB must retire Bud Selig as commissioner, and install a replay system similar to the already existing system that the Little League World Series has, and uses to near perfection I might add. The fans, managers, owners, players, and I imagine the umpires, would be overly pleased with it being in place in the future... hopefully sooner than later.
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