Instant replay for balls and strikes?

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Instant replay? Nope.

Blown call? Yup.

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For Petes sake no way! The games are way too long already. Can you imagine instant replay? Ten hour games maybe?

Just kidding but the 6 run inning would have been much shorter!

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All of this instant talk...



...keep a lid on it!




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Starbucks is rolling out instant!

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StarYucks!

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The day MLB goes to instant replay for balls/strikes is the day 90% of America ceases to watch. And I would be one of them if it doesn't happen sooner.

I'm with Bulldog on this one...and Woody too!

I'll bet Woody is a Dunky D. guy.

If they do anything they need to take the plate ump out of the equation because if you are going to challenge balls and strikes or review every close call then it will be a long night. Either stick with what we got and put the good umps who have proven they deserve to be there (and get rid of the rotation thing) or come up with some kind of computer thing to call them and it's indisputable.

I don't believe balls and strikes will ever come under review with today's technology. There's an error factor with those grids put up on the screen. For other plays the managers could be allowed a couple of challenges per game, or if they get two challenges wrong, no more challenges.

Agree that no replay should be done on balls and strikes. Adjusting to an umpire's strike zone is a key part of hitting and pitching. The so called blown call on ball 4 is a great example. The umpire had been calling a zone where he was giving the pitch off the outside corner all night and not giving the inside corner. One of the called strikes earlier in the at bat was a ball off the outside corner. Expecting to all of a sudden get the call on a pitch at the bottom of the strike zone on the inside corner was delusional. All we can ask for is consistency and as far as I could tell the ball/strike calls were pretty consistent.

As far as replays for blown calls I don't think that baseball has to follow the football approach on that. I'd recommend the crew chief be assigned to the replay booth with the authority to overturn any CLEARLY blown call on their own. They'd have to call time while they were reviewing the play. It wouldn't work to have managers asking for replays. It would take too long. There would have to be a rules rewrite for blown foul calls to figure out how to properly credit a team when a fair ball is called foul.

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Originally posted by RJM:
I don't believe balls and strikes will ever come under review with today's technology.

Maybe..... .....with vertical plane lasers set on the inside/outside edges of the plate and surgically implanted laser on each knee and both nippples of the player representing the horizontal planes, any ball passing through the box would be rung up on the scoreboard. Likewise, a detection unit would be put in the bat verifying a check swing if the bat enters the strike zone.

There must be a patent attorney on this site somewhere

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Originally posted by CPLZ:
I'll bet Woody is a Dunky D. guy.

You're right CP...



...I was kinda forced into that position.




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