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River Avenue Blues: Selig against expanding replay
Never on Injured Reserve: After Reviewing the Play, The Ruling on the Field Stands
Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog: Selig Says No Additional Replays
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@levarburton http://bit.ly/4epziW Sorry not happening. 26 days ago |
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RT @RiverAveBlues: ESPN: Bud Selig not a fan of expanding replay; is an asshat http://bit.ly/4epziW 26 days ago |
Selig against expanding replay
River Avenue Blues —
Before last night’s World Series game, before the bottom of the 7th ended with a controversial call and the top of the 8th ended with a flat-out wrong call, Bud Selig spoke to reporters about the state of baseball. Generally, he feels the game is strong, and fifteen years after a crippling labor strike, it is. He also addressed the increased use of technology in the game, and it is here that the Commissioner took a stance.
As Jim Caple reports:
MLB commissioner Bud Selig said he has been soliciting outside opinion from managers and general ...
After Reviewing the Play, The Ruling on the Field Stands
Never on Injured Reserve —
... Jorge Posada was doubled up on a ball that bounced right before it hit Ryan Howard's glove and was ruled a line drive. To the naked eye, especially at game speed, it looked like Howard caught it cleanly, but the play only adds fodder for the replay crowd to keep complaining and asking for a change. Somewhere between the "red flag challenge" group and the "let's not change anything" group lies a happy medium where replay is extended for all boundary calls, not just home runs. Just don't put Bud Selig into either of those camps. Per ESPN's Jim Caple, "The more baseball people I ...
Selig Says No Additional Replays
Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog —
From Jim Caple: MLB commissioner Bud Selig said he has been soliciting outside opinion from managers and general managers the past few weeks and said no one offered a good explanation why the umpiring was so bad in the first rounds of the postseason. "The more baseball people I talk to, there is a lot of trepidation about it and I think their trepidation is fair," Selig told reporters before Game 2 of the World Series on Thursday. "I've spent a lot of time [on this] over the past month and will spend a lot of time in the ensuing months as well. I don't want ...
10/31 - All Hallows' Eve Edition
Over the Monster —
... Really struggling to find any viable reason why not at this point. Of course, Commish Buddy ain't adding much to the debate either. ...
Weekend Discussion: How much umpire review should we have?
Red Reporter —
... most calls and let you know in, oh, eight seconds or so.
Of course, we've already changed the rules this season to allow for some review--but only for home run calls, and the process takes forever. Then again, even such a half-assed change as that was a Big Deal in this sport--and somehow things stayed more or less the same. The world didn't come crashing down, but we had a few more correct calls.
And I have to note that Bud Selig hates the idea of doing anything for reasons that, as expected, make perfect sense: ...
Umpiring is better ... but not better enough
ESPN Feed: neyer rob —
... . When you've just about everyone in the media lining up behind something, you can guess it's going to happen eventually. Of course, when "eventually" happens is anybody's guess. Because there's one big roadblock: Commissioner-for-Life Bud Selig. From a recent piece by Jim Caple : Really? Which baseball people, exactly, has he been talking to? And while it's certainly true that there are controversies in every sport, shouldn't the administrators of the sports do what they can to limit controversies? I worry about the pace of the game, too. But it's impossible to make an ...
Three Ways To Make the MLB Playoffs Successful Every Year
The Big Lead —
... Video Replay: Baseball’s primary concern should not be the human element. It should be getting the calls right. HDTVs, slow-motion replays and video technology have proven that umpires are woefully inadequate and affecting the outcomes of games. One team should not make the playoffs over another, because an umpire ...
