joejoesox Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball reversed its long-standing opposition to instant replay and will allow umpires to check video on home run calls in series that start Thursday. Commissioner Bud Selig was scheduled to make the announcement at 5 p.m. ET Tuesday. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3554357 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHizzle85 Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 hooray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky Mark Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 This will be the beginning of many future ad ons to the use of instant replay in baseball. No way it will be just home runs forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamTell Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Let's just get robots to be umpires as well. I don't mind if it stays this way just for homers, but I'm sure it won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sox It To Em Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Never thought I'd say this, but Kenny Rogers nailed it in that article, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Great. It's damn near impossible for umpires to make some of those calls while sprinting down the line. I really don't understand the opposition to it. Rogers tears apart his own argument. He thinks its just because they blew a call for Arod, but then says that they've blown the HR call thousands of times. Uh, sorry, that's not "beauty." Huge, game-changing errors of an umpire's judgment of a ball 200 ft away shouldn't be a "historical" part of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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