Baseball has been officially RUINED by replay.

Changed the game for worse... wrote:

After 140 yrs they have now decided you can be called out if the super slow motion frame by frame replay shows a runner not touching the bag even though he beat the throw and is completely over top of the bag making no attempt to advance.

I've already quit watching for football and basketball because of the idiocy replay brought to those sports.

What's even more idiotic is the time spent on replays when the umpire can miss 25 calls on balls and strikes or a bad call is not reviewable for some reason.

Technology is making a mockery of sports not making them any more fair.

No one cares about the opinion of a baseball fan.

I agree that the addition of replay is silly.

Changed the game for worse... wrote:

After 140 yrs they have now decided you can be called out if the super slow motion frame by frame replay shows a runner not touching the bag even though he beat the throw and is completely over top of the bag making no attempt to advance.

I've already quit watching for football and basketball because of the idiocy replay brought to those sports.

What's even more idiotic is the time spent on replays when the umpire can miss 25 calls on balls and strikes or a bad call is not reviewable for some reason.

Technology is making a mockery of sports not making them any more fair.

Only sport left that can't be "manipulated". You probably like the mutilation sports like mma, football, and boxing.

Agreed. The human element spoke to me as the true purity of the sport. I think back to playing ball as a youngster and how sometimes you just didn't win the argument.

I've stopped going to games since replay.

If a sport is going to insist on using replay, and they do, there should be a rule that if a call isn't overturned in, say 60 seconds, it stands. The idea behind replay is to find "indisputable" proof that a call was wrong. If you can't find that proof in a minute it's not there. at least if they do this there'll be less time spent on replays.

Changed the game for worse... wrote:

After 140 yrs they have now decided you can be called out if the super slow motion frame by frame replay shows a runner not touching the bag even though he beat the throw and is completely over top of the bag making no attempt to advance.

I've already quit watching for football and basketball because of the idiocy replay brought to those sports.

What's even more idiotic is the time spent on replays when the umpire can miss 25 calls on balls and strikes or a bad call is not reviewable for some reason.

Technology is making a mockery of sports not making them any more fair.

I stopped watching baseball years ago because of the 'steroids' era... actually all pro sports. it sucks that they are now doing that. the game is painfully slow as it is.

that said, why the heck don't they just put a sensor in the ball, all gloves & shoes, and the bases? that way they would know instantly if they runner was safe or out. it sure would speed up the game. i can't imagine the technology isn't there.

of course, i don't really care so never mind i said that.

HRE wrote:

If a sport is going to insist on using replay, and they do, there should be a rule that if a call isn't overturned in, say 60 seconds, it stands. The idea behind replay is to find "indisputable" proof that a call was wrong. If you can't find that proof in a minute it's not there. at least if they do this there'll be less time spent on replays.

I agree with this.

The ump has one instant to see it and make a call.

it shouldn't take more than one minute and a couple of views to overturn something obvious.

if it's not obvious you go with the original call.

And you shouldn't have to touch first base if you are running through to beat a throw.

Going over it should be good enough.

Home plate is different.

Replay can be good for the ref/umps health. People are crazy, leave a questionable call and the ref/ump is going to pay for it. On the flip side it could stop cheating refs/umps who could play favorites.

Star wrote:

HRE wrote:

If a sport is going to insist on using replay, and they do, there should be a rule that if a call isn't overturned in, say 60 seconds, it stands. The idea behind replay is to find "indisputable" proof that a call was wrong. If you can't find that proof in a minute it's not there. at least if they do this there'll be less time spent on replays.

I agree with this.

The ump has one instant to see it and make a call.

it shouldn't take more than one minute and a couple of views to overturn something obvious.

if it's not obvious you go with the original call.

And you shouldn't have to touch first base if you are running through to beat a throw.

Going over it should be good enough.

Home plate is different.

The issue I have with not having to touch the bag at first is that to see the runner break that "invisible plane" the ump would have to be standing in the baseline between 1st & 2nd OR on the same line between 1st base and the 1st base dugout. These aren't reasonable places for the ump to stand.

Baseball was ruined well before replay. It's a terrible "sport".

What about the time honored In the neighborhood of second base double play ?

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/cc5cb43430d1463fb704a4149e2cf5e4/play-at-second-base-by-joe-brown-sculptor-installed-in-1976-in-veterans-ded0m9.jpg

If I was commissioner, here is what I'd do.

1) Eliminate replay during the regular season. If they blow a call, who cares. It's one of 162 games during the season.

If I have to have it, I'd institute a 15-second decision clock. The manager had 15-seconds to decide if he's challenging. What we have now is idiotic. There basically are 4-5 unofficial challenges in every game as the manager waits until his own people watch the replay to decide if he's going to challenge. My decision clock would be put the impetus on the runner to not BS the manager. He should know if he was safe or not.

2) Make the foul poles way higher or use some sort of technology (laser?) that instantly tells me if a home run was fair our foul. There should be no doubt. Hell we could hire someone at $15 an hour and have them sit underneath the pole if need be.

3) Make all playoff series best of 7 (except for the wildcard). It may not be tv friendly but that's the way the game was meant to be played. I get rid of all of the off days between games to speed it up.

Those would be my three changes on Day 1.

In terms of other things, I'd try using a robo ump for balls and strikes in the pre-season. Personally I think I like how the ump blows some calls but then again I've never seen a game with a robo ump. Plus it seems like the technology could easily be manipulated to benefit certain teams so I'd like a human but I'm not opposed to trying it out in the pre-season. Plus we need jobs. Robots are killing all jobs in this country.

I'd also like to see a home plate that sits over the plate like regular base (maybe it pops up or something?). It drives me nuts that a player is out because his foot didn't hit the non-existent bag at home. It encourages them to slide headfirst which isn't safe. Either that or say that if their foot is over home, they are considered to be home.

Lastly, I"d consider saying if you beat the throw and stay and don't fall of the bag then you are safe. These permanent tags/pushes are annoying as others have said.

All sports have been negatively impacted by the replay. Hell, even T&F has had some major blunders. Now you have half the field of a final made up of people who were let through due to pushes and so forth... Relays run solo? WTF are we coming to?

I understand that we need to be fair, but we cannot ruin the game in our attempt to rule out any bad calls.

Football is downright unwatchable these days. I honestly cannot watch an NFL game or even a college Game Day broadcast. One half takes 3 hours. Who wants to spend that much time watching TV? And I am a huge sports fan.

All of a sudden soccer games seem pretty quick and action packed. I went to a major SEC game this past weekend and was amazed at the difference between these games and the ones at my alma mater (not a major football school). SO MANY TV TIME OUTS!!! We had the kids with us and left in the 3rd quarter because they were falling asleep.

rojo wrote:

In terms of other things, I'd try using a robo ump for balls and strikes in the pre-season. Personally I think I like how the ump blows some calls but then again I've never seen a game with a robo ump. .

The Saturday game between Cleveland and Toronto I didn't see the home plate umpire miss ANY balls and strikes. It was pretty incredible. Every call he made was backed up by pitch track. The Monday game was the worst. That ump had to miss 30-40 pitches that pitch track said otherwise. Of course it was for both teams but that guy was terrible.

The main problem with a robo ump would be that the players would look pretty silly arguing with a machine behind home plate.

You are telling me that they have found a way to slow down baseball even more and make it even more boring?