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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

There's no crying in baseball..

...but there is replay now after Selig agreed to allow the technology to be used for boundary calls, whether the ball goes over the fence, was touched by a fan or goes around a foul pole. This article asks what other changes will be made to the game of baseball now that the door has been opened.

How long, though, before baseball is asked to look at whether a ball was trapped in one of those mattress-sized outfielders' gloves, or whether a ball hit the foul line deep in left, or whether, say, a certain deviously clever catcher for a certain South Side Chicago team was really interfered with.....

These are dangerous, techie-filled waters in which baseball has dipped its toe. How long before somebody, ripped off by an umpire's incorrect call that is deemed un-reviewable, goes for the whole foot?

via SI.com

I just keep hearing Tom Hanks saying "There's no replay in baseball!" [WARNING: The clip from the movie below has colorful language which may be offensive to some.]

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Love that movie!