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Name:	roswellric -	Reply
Subject:	Freddie Freeman is Da Man!
Date:	7/27/2011 10:31:42 PM

Again!

Name:	BigFoot -	Reply
Subject:	Freddie Freeman is Da Man!
Date:	7/28/2011 6:44:33 AM

You're right about that. I felt bad for the umpire making the bad call Tuesday night...stayed up late watching the game to the finish...wanted the Braves to win but hated to see it happen on a blown call....definitely time for baseball to get with the program and utilize replay in certain situations other than the foul poles now used in home run situations.

Name:	muddauber -	Reply
Subject:	Freddie Freeman is Da Man!
Date:	7/28/2011 8:48:13 AM (updated 7/28/2011 8:58:11 AM)

Yeah, they do need to look into replay. We had a kid lose a no hitter this year because of a blown call. That one is top of the list for reasons to have replay. I'd suspect law of averages will be pretty even as for games won or lost due to a call.
I used to ref soccer for quite a few years. It's a tough job. And you are going to blow it, and that does fell real bad when it changes a game. But you gotta go by you called the play and move on or you can lose control of a game. I reversed one call on the field when the striker told me it was a clean play and removed the penalty kick wich likely would have won the game for them.

Name:	roswellric -	Reply
Subject:	Baseball is about statistics not technology.
Date:	7/28/2011 2:50:46 PM

I disagree. Baseball is about the only sport left where the umpire is part of the game. And I think an essential part. For example hockey spectators love the fights, baseball spectators love the managers raising H3ll with the umps and being thrown out of the game. It's part of the human experience. But most importantly are you willing to let lasers call balls & strikes? Naw.....That would really suck.

Name:	BigFoot -	Reply
Subject:	Baseball is about statistics not technology.
Date:	7/28/2011 4:02:06 PM

..agree to a point..certainly you should not tamper with the umpires judgment on balls and strikes...but certain other calls could work just as well as in college football with the principal of "indisputable evidence" being the guiding factor to eliminate the possibility of an umpire's blown call being the deciding factor in a ball game.

Name:	HARRY -	Reply
Subject:	Baseball is about statistics not technology.
Date:	7/28/2011 5:50:40 PM

Baseball is slow enough without replays

Name:	BigFoot -	Reply
Subject:	Baseball is about statistics not technology.
Date:	7/28/2011 6:20:40 PM

..can't argue with that

Name:	roswellric -	Reply
Subject:	But...
Date:	7/28/2011 9:27:47 PM

that would be like being a little bit pregnant :-) The game has worked fine for how many years? I'd leave it alone. That's like suggesting your wife get plastic surgery every now and then to improve things....wait..... uh....

Name:	BigFoot -	Reply
Subject:	But...
Date:	7/28/2011 11:21:21 PM

lol....interesting take...but maybe the game is a little bit pregnant! Regarding the situation Tuesday night, I have yet to see a replay where glove meets uniform on the tag. The umpire admitted that he blew it after looking at video of it as it sure suggests that the tag was made but all I can say is that it was much more of a tag than most of the phantom tags of second base on double plays--but still no indisputable evidence....what concerns me is whether or not the ump just wanted to go home that bad after 6+ hours of baseball.

Name:	roswellric -	Reply
Subject:	But...
Date:	7/29/2011 9:44:15 AM

Maybe the latter. I have done some umpiring and I can tell you sometimes those kinds of games you might - on a close one- be influenced by your state of mind :-) Umps do that all the time. For example if the catcher blocked my view the call will go to the batter - of course unless it's obviously a ball. Similar thing applies to a high tag on a close one. Humans are not perfect and that's what makes them so interesting - and the game of baseball.

Name:	muddauber -	Reply
Subject:	But...
Date:	7/30/2011 9:12:57 AM

I can see that. Just look at the double plays. How often does the second baseman miss the bag with his foot before throwing to first, yet the runner is called out. Looking at the vid we could watch, I cannot see any pant leg moving etc to change the on field call. Every time I look at it, it just seems the catcher swept his glove upward and never touched the runner.
Like you said, it is part of the game. One of the joys of baseball is that it has been mostly left alone. It still is what we remember as we played/watched when we were kids. Kinda like to see it stay that way.

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