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Mid-season? Really?
U.S.S. Mariner —
As expected, MLB today announced it will begin using instant replay for “boundary calls”–basically, wether or not home runs were fair or foul, interfered with, or went over the wall at all. The unexpected part is that the new system begins… Thursday. (Wire story here, more detailed MLB.com story here)
Not during spring training, not to be tested during the Arizona Fall League, not put in place over the All-Star break… Thursday. Right in the middle of the season. It’s unclear to me from these stories how much testing has taken place. I hope it’s a least a little bit, because starting something like this on a random day in the ...
Let's Go to the Videotape
El Lefty Malo —
Starting Thursday, MLB will use video replay on controversial home runs. Odds are good it will come into use at least once at Mays Field before the season is over, seeing how often fans reach above and perhaps over the left and center field fences to catch deep flies.
I can remember one such case, I think it was Kelly Stinnett of the Diamondbacks who hit it. Bonus points if you can find the game.
One interesting aspect about this new, limited use of replay is that it won’t eliminate umpires’ judgment calls:
Any decision regarding the placement of runners, should a home run call be reversed, will be made by the crew chief. As ...
The Griddle: Let's go to the video! On Thursday
Baseball Toaster —
Major League Baseball will institute a limited use of instant replay to decide whether or not a potential home run is fair or foul or if a fan interfered or even if the ball actually went out of the park, starting on Thursday. All games will be monitored and staffed by an expert technician and either an umpire supervisor or a former umpire at Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLB.com) headquarters in New York. A television monitor and a secure telephone link to MLB.com, placed next to the monitor, have been installed during the past few weeks at every Major League ballpark. The positions vary. Some are located in dugouts and others are near the umpires' dressing quarters. If the ...
Baseball Today: Wednesday, August 27
Projo Sox Blog —
... 13,478 last night. (Tampa Tribune)
AND NEVER IS HEARD A DISCOURAGING WORD: He doesn't mention them by name, but Joe Posnanski tears into Hawk Harrelson and Darrin Jackson for twisting themselves into common-sense pretzels as they attempted to claim the A.J. Pierzynski play against the Rays a couple of days ago was, indeed, interference.
IT'S ALL GOOD . . . OR MOSTLY GOOD: Instant replay -- as you probably know by now -- starts Thursday (mlb.com), and SI.com's John Donovan and Yahoo! Sport's Tim Brown, ...
Secretary of Labor: Justin Morneau
City Pages - Balls! Sports Blog —
... lacks in consistency, Justin Morneau is the constant. The Mountie rides nightly. For such ceaseless dedication to productive and steadfast performance, he is the foundation of the Twins. And he is hereby named our Secretary of Labor. May all of you gentle readers have a safe and restful holiday weekend. I'm off for a few to pretend like I know how to fish, but, should time/interest allow, please check back prior to Labor Day as I'll be posting impressions on the implementation of instant reply . Until then, and with just 30 games to play, here's a look at how the Cabinet ...
Open Letter to Bud Selig
Blue Collar Baseball —
Dear Bud, I have never found the right moment to thank you for ruining my favorite game. Now, however, with the introduction of instant replay on Thursday, it seems like the proper time to do so. Thank you Bud, for all that you have done to ruin the game of baseball over your tenure as Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Interleague play, post-seasons in November, ending the All-Star Game in a tie, looking the other way while players were doing steroids, and now instant replay... you should be ashamed of yourself, Bud. You have totally alienated true baseball fans in the name of profit. Thanks for sticking up for the owners Bud, and not us. We know that you have never ...
Instant Mistake: bringing replay to baseball
City Pages - Balls! Sports Blog —
... and the hopes of an unknown future. I'm not for replay. Regular readers of this space surely know this. And for what has been readily discussed by myself and countless others, little has been said about the bizarre and frantic rush to remove human judgment. Just ten years ago, baseball GM's voted 29-1 against replay. A few years later, it was 25-5 against. And now, so suddenly, it's being implemented in the middle of a season ? What the hell? Replay will be employed (for now) only for home run "boundary calls," balls whose fair/foul standing or in/out status comes into ...
Twins' Gardenhire eager to take baseball's replay to the next level
Big League Stew —
The NFL gives its coaches fashionable red bean bags for replay requests. Ron Gardenhire wants one, too. Minnesota's skipper, whose team was burned by a missed call at the plate Monday night, says major league managers should be able to demand a video review when disputing an umpire's call. "I've said all along that I want a red flag," Gardenhire said. "If you use it and you're wrong, you don't get the red flag the rest of
the game. But if you use it and you're right, you get your red flag
back. That would save me a lot of [fine] money. Just throw the red flag
and replay it. "Football has a red flag. Why can't we? Keep ...
