I think baseball needs to go further with instant replay because baseball should not be decided on close calls. The play was never reviewed because baseball wants to stay with the human element.
Joe Ray
-Multimedia Editor –
I think baseball needs to go further with instant replay because baseball should not be decided on close calls. The play was never reviewed because baseball wants to stay with the human element.
Even jumbotrons show the replay and still the umpires ignore the play and go on with the game.
We are growing in a very technological age where baseball is evolving so much with it. Athletes can go into video rooms and look at their batting swing to improve it. Video has gone so far since it has come to us in sports. Yes, I do believe instant replay does belong in our national pastime.
In order for replay to actually survive in baseball, they need to change the process for which replay is already done today. The umpires take so long to review the play. They need to teach them a much faster process so that pitchers aren’t waiting and losing the momentum of the game. Baseball does not need to review balls and strikes because then it takes away from the fun and historic value of the game. Bud Selig needs to be taken out as the commissioner of baseball. We need someone to lead this game, someone preferably who has some common sense. Technology is evolving, and so is baseball.
Wrigley Field in Chicago has not had a jumbotron in the history of the baseball park. Now they are thinking of putting one in. They are risking their historic value as a stadium to evolve with baseball. Things need to change now, so that we aren’t costing teams a chance in postseason.
