Instant Replay Is Needed
Major League Baseball needs instant replay. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
There have been many columns written by baseball writers and writers in general telling people that instant replay takes away the human element of the game. These writers have said that instant replay takes away the beauty of making your competitors pay for mistakes.
The human element argument is a joke.
With instant replay, there is still the human capacity for mistakes. But why not limit the mistakes to a minimun? The advocates of instant replay are not talking about using it for every single close call. But late in the game, when you want to be sure the call is right, why not have something there to make sure?
One writer says that the Immaculate Reception would not have happened if there was instant replay.
Yeah and so what?
Read the columns around the country that tell you instant replay doesn't belong in baseball. The human element argument has nothing to do with the beauty of the game. It has everything to do with helping legend-making, "purity of the game" obsessed sports writers with material for stories.
The only human element in sports that is beautiful are the athletes. The umpires and officials are not the story and should never be the story.
Don Denkinger recieved death threats after his blown call in game 6 of the 1985 World Series. Go ask him if he finds the human element "beautiful."
On another note: Doug Eddings talked about his umpiring "style." Maybe there should not be a style. Maybe there should be a universal call for balls, strikes and strikeouts. I bet that if there was a clear-cut, universal way of doing things...A.J. Pierzynski would have never ran to first base.
One more note: Michael Bamberger is an idiot. I thought journalist were supposed to WRITE the stories and not BE the story. The job of a journalist is to report what you see, not alter it. I'm just happy that it happened to someone like Michelle Wie. Wie showed a lot of class with the way she handled the situation. I don't think anyone else would have handled the situation with such grace.
There have been many columns written by baseball writers and writers in general telling people that instant replay takes away the human element of the game. These writers have said that instant replay takes away the beauty of making your competitors pay for mistakes.
The human element argument is a joke.
With instant replay, there is still the human capacity for mistakes. But why not limit the mistakes to a minimun? The advocates of instant replay are not talking about using it for every single close call. But late in the game, when you want to be sure the call is right, why not have something there to make sure?
One writer says that the Immaculate Reception would not have happened if there was instant replay.
Yeah and so what?
Read the columns around the country that tell you instant replay doesn't belong in baseball. The human element argument has nothing to do with the beauty of the game. It has everything to do with helping legend-making, "purity of the game" obsessed sports writers with material for stories.
The only human element in sports that is beautiful are the athletes. The umpires and officials are not the story and should never be the story.
Don Denkinger recieved death threats after his blown call in game 6 of the 1985 World Series. Go ask him if he finds the human element "beautiful."
On another note: Doug Eddings talked about his umpiring "style." Maybe there should not be a style. Maybe there should be a universal call for balls, strikes and strikeouts. I bet that if there was a clear-cut, universal way of doing things...A.J. Pierzynski would have never ran to first base.
One more note: Michael Bamberger is an idiot. I thought journalist were supposed to WRITE the stories and not BE the story. The job of a journalist is to report what you see, not alter it. I'm just happy that it happened to someone like Michelle Wie. Wie showed a lot of class with the way she handled the situation. I don't think anyone else would have handled the situation with such grace.
posted by Stephon Johnson @ 6:17 PM
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