are screwing up the world.

Heh, at least Sharky did a post without mentioning Obama somewhere in it.

if they turned all umpires into robots. Especially if they had lasers shooting from the eyes.

I’m sure his constituency there isn’t a big fan of removing responsibilities from umpires.

I constantly hear umpires say that a good game is when they don’t get mentioned. Here is a way to correct missed calls, end those painful press conferences where umps have to admit their wrong, and keep themselves out of post-game stories. Instead, they want to hold onto that false archaic sense of pride that blown calls are part of the game and we should just get over it. I bet NFL refs don’t hate instant replay.

If for no other reason, to keep the umps honest (a.k.a. no kickbacks from the mob)

Has anyone put forth a good theory as to how the umpires will limit which calls are reviewed? It seems to me like the managers would want every close call to be reviewed. If this amounts to 4 or 5 throughout the game, that really is detrimental.

I’m in favor of instant replays, but I think it needs to be from an MLB employee whose sole job is to sit in the box upstairs and be able to review calls while the game happens and radio down to the crew…. If the announcers always get the call right after seeing the replay, someone right next to them can just radio down and save time… who knows

Sorry old man, but if your job can be done better by a robot, we’ll go with the robot. Maybe you can find something else to get grossly overpaid for doing.

AJM’s little bullcrap post blaming of course, Selig. You know, because Selig is in league with those icky owners, a liberal like AJM can go blaming a labor union of course, it must all be Selig’s doing.

I don’t think AJM blamed Selig, but whatever. “Selig is in league with those icky owners.” Yes, yes he is. “Icky owners.” Is that sarcasm? Are you implying they are or aren’t icky? Or is the sarcasm that Selig isn’t in league with the owners? “[A] liberal . . . can go blaming a labor union . . . .” Unions are traditionally seen as a “liberal” idea. Why would a liberal enjoy blaming a liberal idea? And are you sying AJM is blaming Selig or the union?

I seriously have no clue what you are implying.

Is it because of “tradition”?

This game already threw tradition out the window with DH’s, instant replay, steroids, and interleague play. I say “bring on the technology if we have it”. I’m sick of strike zones being different, I’m sick of being able to determine if a call sucks within 5 seconds (thanks, TiVO!) while MLB acts like it will add 2 hours to each game, and I’m sick of the umpires having this holier-than-thou attitude where they would rather stand there and tell me that the sky is purple when everyone can plainly see that the sky is blue just because they get their feelings hurt when confronted.

Screw them.

well, then baseball doesn’t want the game to improve. I think we shouldn’t review that many things, but tags on the bases, HRs and foul balls. that’s it. balls and strikes should always remain in an umpires hands.

The world is very black and white to you, my friend. Everyone is either a liberal or a …. whatever you are (I’ll refrain from name-calling). I envy you. I wish I could cultivate a world— view was as simple and myopic as yours. Good luck being an ideologue.