- Dec 11, 2010
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Listening to commentators repeat the same garbage that the coaches feed them game after game is like listening to a comedy album for the 50th time.
Yes I just dated myself.
Yes I just dated myself.
I had never thought of this until now but what about a ball or strike on the next batter for a failed challenge.I still don't get it, but I'll use it for another rant . . .
That is NOT what instant replay is for. If you have to go frame-by-frame to erase your pitcher getting rocked, that is bush league. Then, because it works for you, (because standing 2/3rds of the way down the baseline signaling safe when your runner was out by a mile didn't work) you want to try again for a ticky-tack non-existent obstruction call?
Both replay reviews came out technically correct (one overturned and one upheld), but these were not attempts to fix egregious errors; they were fishing expeditions. While I tend to argue that replay should be all or nothing (review anything and everything or review nothing), fishing expeditions should not be allowable. No, I don't have a good fix for that beyond the same thing we do without replay: you have to convince me and I have to agree there is a good reason (not "you don't like the outcome") to go to the booth.
I don’t like it. Punishes hitter for something they have no control over.I had never thought of this until now but what about a ball or strike on the next batter for a failed challenge.
Not THAT I can support!the coach has to sing "killing me softly" to the crowd between innings.