MLB replay's

[member20672]

With all the bad umpire calls in baseball, officials are thinking more and more about using the camera to check calls. As you all know replays are rarely used in baseball and barely reverse any calls. Many say that this takes away from the national pastime. I personally like the decision. We see so many wrong calls made by the umpire. Yes the umpire has a tough enough job, but being able to check their calls would help prevent the use of security to escort out the umpires.

What do you guys think?

 

[Civickiller80]

What kills me is they show the replays on the Jumbo Screens for the fans to see!....Being an ump is a really tough job where you get blasted everytime you make a bad tough call they never get repsect for making a tough right call....i've ssen videos of where refs in soccer have to literally run away from fans in the stadium...I think if the technology is there to help the BEST team win why not use it?....

 

[member20672]

What kills me is they show the replays on the Jumbo Screens for the fans to see!....Being an ump is a really tough job where you get blasted everytime you make a bad tough call they never get repsect for making a tough right call....i've ssen videos of where refs in soccer have to literally run away from fans in the stadium...I think if the technology is there to help the BEST team win why not use it?....

Exactly, but from what i heard the last time they tried this, the team owners were split 50/50 over the decision. Its time for the other half to wake up and realize that they need a better system of justifing calls made by the umpire.

 

[Civickiller80]

Why cant the fans just say EH we want a replay...i know the Chicago fans must be estatic thet there team won...but also as players from the chicago team dont you think they feel like maybe they cheated to win?...or the angels feel cheated they lost...to me basically bad calls when they result in the outcome of AN EXTREMELY important game should be reviewed...whats wrong with reviewing the play?...or consulting the other umps or the crew chief would have been the right way to do this...I remember as being from Toronto in 1992 The triple play during the Blue Jay World Series when Kelly Gruber tagged the guy and the Ump missed it. You could see Gruber's glove bend as he touched the guy and the Ump still missed it..

 

[member20672]

The umpire has lasted since baseball started, and even though they have a limited view, compared to the audience, it is time that they got some help and adopted some kind of replay review system. Maybe even have someone in the booth talk down to the home plate ump through microphones.

 

[Civickiller80]

Yeah nothing leaves a worse felling to a team or ruins confidence then a blow call against you...baseball blew it before in 1996 when baltimore played New York and some kid (Jemery something) reached OVER the fence and caught the Derek Jeter homerun...THEY HAD 6 UMPS at that game and noce could make the right call?...the kid then even went on talks shows talking about the catch..that was a slap in the face to baseball and they didnt realize it then to fix this error?...

 

[iputinwork]

i don't watch enough baseball to really care, but having seen the white sox game, and the now infamous call, a few things come to mind:

-assuming that i/r was in effect for that game, and also assuming that there would have to be "irrefutable visual evidence" to overturn the call on the field, the call that the home plate umpire made would have stood.

-having i/r as a backup should be in place in all sports, it just makes sense, especially with so much on the line.

-on the other hand, as an avid sports fan who watches at least 10-20 hours of sports a week (football, baseball, basketball, golf and tennis...plus some hockey, billiards & poker...), officials seem to make the correct call at least 19 times out of 20, and probably 99 times out of 100. more often than not, the opinion of whether the call is correct depends on what team the audience is rooting for (try =watching a game you care nothing about...it's amazing how much better the officiating seems).

people are always going to complain about officiating, no matter what safeguards are in place.

 

[juballs]

i was an umpire for 5 years and went as high as to umpire local teams up to age 23-35.

pretty much adult teams.

i found that you have to take your time. if you are unsure about a call, dont rush it and force yourself to make the wrong decision,

the display in the angels sox series was horrendous, and could have all been avoided if a little more time, or a metting with the 2nd base ump and the angels would be up 2-0

 

[D-rock]

The problem with replay in baseball today is that it already takes too long to get through a game. With all the messing around the batter and pitcher do between pitches and with them trying to through the runner out at first/hold him on twelve times an inning, the games have already started running longer then they did in the past. If they had to use replay on every questionable call(and every pitch that is close to being out of/in the strike zone will be considered questionable) you would be able to go out, take a nice drive, have dinner, and still be back with half the game left to go.

 

[ilovepornpics]

i am for it because that shit that happened the other night should not have happened in a high risk playoff game. that damn ump clearly called the swing and then made the action with the fist to call him out. i could care less either way who wins that league but that is just uncalled for. he clearly called him out on missed swing but acted like he didn't. they should do something like what football does with one or two chances to review. don't replay everyplay, but rather put in the managers hands to decide what wasn't right. there has been way to many bad call here lately. too much is on the line with the littliest call in baseball.