"We're going to expand instant replay when we have the technology to do it… Among all the people I talk to, nobody is anxious to increase instant replay. And I concur with that. That doesn't mean we won't continue to review it. Baseball is a game of pace. We've got to be very sensitive and careful in the way we proceed. I can tell you that the appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low. There are some people who think we've gone too far already."
This statement is so absurd you have to look at it sentence by sentence.
We're going to expand instant replay when we have the technology to do it…
How in the world does the MLB not have the technology to implement a proper replay system? Do they really think it's tougher to track what's going on in baseball than football? God forbid they install a few more cameras to give the umpires a better angle.
Among all the people I talk to, nobody is anxious to increase instant replay. And I concur with that
Who exactly do you talk to Bud? I don’t think I’ve spoken to anyone who agrees with that statement. Maybe people who are also ancient and need to find another job agree with you, but the fans do not. We’re sick and tired of routine calls being blown and know there’s a better way.
Baseball is a game of pace. We've got to be very sensitive and careful in the way we proceed.
If baseball is a game of pace then what is basketball, football, hockey, and soccer? Baseball is the game least reliant on pace of every major sport. I’m so confused by that statement and I would like to hear one logical argument explaining why replay would destroy the “pace” of MLB.
I can tell you that the appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low. There are some people who think we've gone too far already.
Again, how out of touch are baseball officials if they think the appetite for more replay is low? Who doesn’t want more replay? The umpires? I haven’t read one article or heard any argument against the current replay outside of the fact that the majority thinking it needs to be expanded. These statements seem borderline insane to me.
To be fair to the MLB they are talking about expanding replay to include trapped balls in the infield (what?) and fair and foul balls. They just don’t know if they’ll have the technology in place to do this right now. I’m so confused what new fancy technology they have to put in place in order to get this system together. I think that’s just a crap way of saying we haven’t looked into all the details yet. Also, who has been demanding that we replay trapped balls in the infield, when does that ever happen or get called incorrectly?
Joe Torre also attended at this meeting as executive vice president of baseball operations and while he said one thing that made sense he also appeared to be way too senile to be doing the job he’s doing. (He has looked that way since 2005, when he was managing the Yankees) The only thing I agreed with that he said was that baseball was considering putting an umpire in the press box or installing a centralized location where the umpires can go watch replays. I vote for the latter but I’ve stated this kind of sentiment a million times because I hate stoppage in the game to watch officials go look at a replay we’ve already seen five times. I would consider most of the other stuff Torre said pretty insane though.
"It seems like replay comes up on whatever play happened last night,'' Torre said, "Because of technology we feel we can fix something quickly, but that's not the case.
I still don’t understand what this magical technology baseball needs to work out in order for us to get a proper replay in the sport but I’m very interested to know what it is. All Bud Selig and Joe Torre can tell us is that it revolves around adding more cameras. What else do they need to consider? Please someone enlighten me! The next quote from Torre is what is really bothersome though.
"The game is imperfect. For all of us who want everything to be right all the time, it's not going to happen. I don't know why we want everything to be perfect. It's an imperfect game. Life isn't perfect and this is a game of life."
This is total nonsense Joe Torre. You can make this argument about absolutely anything at all. “Well I didn’t fix the toilet because there’s no such thing as a perfect toilet, so let’s just the toilet overflow. I mean life’s not perfect and there’s no such thing as a perfect toilet, so why should our toilet be perfect.”
Nobody thinks we can officiate anything 100% correctly all the time but why would the goal be anything less? This falls into the realm of the “human element” and this argument just doesn’t have a leg to stand on. The games not perfect so let’s just blow calls on the base paths routinely for no reason. This is not about getting it perfect, this is about not being totally incompetent like the MLB Umpires are right now.
This whole conference was just a painful thing to watch and read about. These guys are old and totally out of touch with what the fans want. Despite a poll on ESPN showing that 60% of over 9,000 fans support an expansion of replay (evidence) we have the commissioner saying nobody is anxious to expand it. Maybe they’re not clamoring for it inside of MLB but outside of it, the people who actually pay your salaries and consume your product are asking, “What has taken so long?”
These guys had the audacity to say that the MLB is in a “golden age” right now. Yeah, baseball is in a golden age after you just tainted an entire era of your sport with a senseless PED witch-hunt and absolutely refuse to officiate your games to the standard of other professional sports. Yeah, I don’t know if we have the technology right now to determine whether this is a “golden age” or not, but we’ll get back to you on that Bud Selig.
We're going to expand instant replay when we have the technology to do it…
How in the world does the MLB not have the technology to implement a proper replay system? Do they really think it's tougher to track what's going on in baseball than football? God forbid they install a few more cameras to give the umpires a better angle.
Among all the people I talk to, nobody is anxious to increase instant replay. And I concur with that
Who exactly do you talk to Bud? I don’t think I’ve spoken to anyone who agrees with that statement. Maybe people who are also ancient and need to find another job agree with you, but the fans do not. We’re sick and tired of routine calls being blown and know there’s a better way.
Baseball is a game of pace. We've got to be very sensitive and careful in the way we proceed.
If baseball is a game of pace then what is basketball, football, hockey, and soccer? Baseball is the game least reliant on pace of every major sport. I’m so confused by that statement and I would like to hear one logical argument explaining why replay would destroy the “pace” of MLB.
I can tell you that the appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low. There are some people who think we've gone too far already.
Again, how out of touch are baseball officials if they think the appetite for more replay is low? Who doesn’t want more replay? The umpires? I haven’t read one article or heard any argument against the current replay outside of the fact that the majority thinking it needs to be expanded. These statements seem borderline insane to me.
To be fair to the MLB they are talking about expanding replay to include trapped balls in the infield (what?) and fair and foul balls. They just don’t know if they’ll have the technology in place to do this right now. I’m so confused what new fancy technology they have to put in place in order to get this system together. I think that’s just a crap way of saying we haven’t looked into all the details yet. Also, who has been demanding that we replay trapped balls in the infield, when does that ever happen or get called incorrectly?
Joe Torre also attended at this meeting as executive vice president of baseball operations and while he said one thing that made sense he also appeared to be way too senile to be doing the job he’s doing. (He has looked that way since 2005, when he was managing the Yankees) The only thing I agreed with that he said was that baseball was considering putting an umpire in the press box or installing a centralized location where the umpires can go watch replays. I vote for the latter but I’ve stated this kind of sentiment a million times because I hate stoppage in the game to watch officials go look at a replay we’ve already seen five times. I would consider most of the other stuff Torre said pretty insane though.
"It seems like replay comes up on whatever play happened last night,'' Torre said, "Because of technology we feel we can fix something quickly, but that's not the case.
I still don’t understand what this magical technology baseball needs to work out in order for us to get a proper replay in the sport but I’m very interested to know what it is. All Bud Selig and Joe Torre can tell us is that it revolves around adding more cameras. What else do they need to consider? Please someone enlighten me! The next quote from Torre is what is really bothersome though.
"The game is imperfect. For all of us who want everything to be right all the time, it's not going to happen. I don't know why we want everything to be perfect. It's an imperfect game. Life isn't perfect and this is a game of life."
This is total nonsense Joe Torre. You can make this argument about absolutely anything at all. “Well I didn’t fix the toilet because there’s no such thing as a perfect toilet, so let’s just the toilet overflow. I mean life’s not perfect and there’s no such thing as a perfect toilet, so why should our toilet be perfect.”
Nobody thinks we can officiate anything 100% correctly all the time but why would the goal be anything less? This falls into the realm of the “human element” and this argument just doesn’t have a leg to stand on. The games not perfect so let’s just blow calls on the base paths routinely for no reason. This is not about getting it perfect, this is about not being totally incompetent like the MLB Umpires are right now.
This whole conference was just a painful thing to watch and read about. These guys are old and totally out of touch with what the fans want. Despite a poll on ESPN showing that 60% of over 9,000 fans support an expansion of replay (evidence) we have the commissioner saying nobody is anxious to expand it. Maybe they’re not clamoring for it inside of MLB but outside of it, the people who actually pay your salaries and consume your product are asking, “What has taken so long?”
These guys had the audacity to say that the MLB is in a “golden age” right now. Yeah, baseball is in a golden age after you just tainted an entire era of your sport with a senseless PED witch-hunt and absolutely refuse to officiate your games to the standard of other professional sports. Yeah, I don’t know if we have the technology right now to determine whether this is a “golden age” or not, but we’ll get back to you on that Bud Selig.
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