* In defense of instant replay

September 9, 2008

In this Allen Barra piece that appears in today’s Wall Street Journal, Rob Neyer wodners why the sue of instant rplay should be limited to home run calls?

[The] author of “The Big Book of Baseball Blunders,” asks: “Why can’t umpires use replay in calling safe or out? Official scorers already use it to decide hits and errors. It’s no big stretch to allow umpires the same advantage.”

Like the designated hitter, Barra notes the diverging opinions on IR:

Advocates for allowing umpires to use instant replay argue that it preserves the integrity of the game; baseball purists counter that the integrity of the game was doing fine without instant replay.

I would venture to say that the most stringen traditionalists would have a change of heart the results put their team on the plus side.

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