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Only on Home Run fair/foul calls, and per the discretion of the umpires.

no.

Of course, Icare what ESPN says about it ruining the image of the game. Look at football, they get the smae stuff but the image of the NFL has not been ruined, it would make for less contrevercy and stupid rivalries!

Yes.

 

Accuracy > Tradition

No. Umpires calls are just part of the game, and they get the vast majority of them correct.

No. Umpires calls are just part of the game, and they get the vast majority of them correct.

 

All > Vast majority

 

I don't understand why traditionalists want to keep something that's imperfect. As far as I'm concerned, if we can have robotic umps that call a perfect and consistent strike zone, I'd be all for it. I know baseball harkens back to a simpler time when women weren't allowed out of the kitchen and the colored folks knew their place, but let's get real, sports officiating should be done as accurately and objectively as possible.

No, the human element is part of baseball

That is so stupid. I think we shouldn't use computers in airplanes anymore. Air travel needs a human element. Who cares if three or four planes a year veer off course and crash into a mountain?

That is so stupid. I think we shouldn't use computers in airplanes anymore. Air travel needs a human element. Who cares if three or four planes a year veer off course and crash into a mountain?

 

Good comparison considering balls and strikes dont cost lives if they are wrong. :plain

 

Umpire strikes zones may be ifferent from ump to ump, but most of them have a consistent one all game long and thats all we can go on.

 

With all the technology we have to check the umps calls, such as ESPN's K zone, for the most part the umpires are not bad.

The intent of the question was not to include balls and strikes in this, that's subjective and part of the game.

 

This is for plays like we've seen blown repeatedly in the playoffs. Fair or foul, did he make the tag, did that ball get out...etc.

Add the replay.......NOW!

That is so stupid. I think we shouldn't use computers in airplanes anymore. Air travel needs a human element. Who cares if three or four planes a year veer off course and crash into a mountain?

 

One has nothing to do with the other. Baseball has been going for over a hundred years with just umps making the calls. Sometimes it goes one way, sometimes it goes another. It's easy to criticize everything when there's 20 cameras on one game in the playoffs. Nevermind the fact the umps get the calls right nearly all the time and the instances where they dont are the extreme example. Games are slow enough as they are, we dont need the instant replay slowing it down even more.

I voted No, but wouldn't care if it was implemented

I dont really care but would like them to get the calls right.

Baseball's slow enough. I think it should be used on home run balls. Anything more than that and I'm not sure.

 

Perhaps only on run-scoring plays?

no ... controversy adds to the game

Even as a bastion of old school baseball Jack McKeon has really pushed the idea of letting each manager have one replay request each per game. I think limited instant replay is a good compromise that doesn't slow down the game.

It depends, really.

The biggest problem with "instant" replay in the NFL is that it takes 20 minutes... I'm sitting in my living room watching replays on FOX and I can decide if a ball was caught or not in 5 seconds, what is taking THEM so long?

 

You need a replay official up in a booth with INSTANT access. Don't make some official walk to some tiny replay camera and call angles by voice command. If you have a replay official and a replay booth, you have all of the camera angles up at the same time in slow motion. Easy freaking call.

well if you think about it if we had instant replay this year the white soxs wouldnt have won maybe even have gotten to the world series because of those lame calls.