GDT: Cubs @ Braves 5/15

Enscheff said:
LOL, well I'll be on the edge of my seat hoping someone asks and I can read your thoughts that are sure to be well thought out pearls of wisdom! A baseball genius hiding in the weeds!!
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I laughed, I admit it. You got me. No baseball genius, but replying to huddy2’s comment, for them to be a WS contender THIS year, I feel they need to look at their options for closer, a 3B, and a TOR starter. That’s what I think it would take to get this team to be WS contenders this year. I still feel they’re at least a year away. To get that done this year would strip the farm dry and wouldn’t be worth it.
 
DirkPiggler said:
I've said this numerous times regarding college football replays, but it is every bit as valid in baseball.

You don't need a current or former umpire working the replay booth. Umps/Refs have a natural predisposition towards protecting their own, even more so than cops. The calls that are reviewable are not plays that require an umpire's judgment - anyone with experience in the sport in question can review to see if the play was called correctly. Penalties in football, and balls and strikes in baseball, are not reviewable plays anyway. It doesn't take a skilled umpire to watch a play on video to determine if a tag was made, if a runner beat the ball on a force out, or if a potential home run stayed fair or cleared the yellow line.

I'd prefer to see retired players, former coaches or managers, or executives making the final judgment on reviewed plays. I guarantee the rate of overturned plays would go up, as would the accuracy of the decisions. Allowing officials to review their own mistakes is like letting convicts be judges for criminal trials.
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THIS all day.... was thinking the exact same thing last night - a similar analogy that came to my mind is that'd be like having salary arbitration hearings in the offseason, w/ a panel consisted entirely of former owners or otherwise high-ranking management
 
thewupk said:
Even my wife who has a basic understanding of safe and out saw it as safe. Just absurd that 'professionals' didn't see this.
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I'm sure the officials in NY or wherever they review the calls from, have a dual, side by side video system they can slow down and advance frame by frame, one picture on the tag and the other on the base. This whole "overwhelming evidence" stuff is BS, imo. It should be either OUT or SAFE or TIE GOES TO THE RUNNER. I have to believe that they can, the great majority of the time, see it clearly on their system. I don't know why FOX doesn't show this dual, frame by frame look, too. Sometimes it seems like they aren't showing viewers the best look.
 
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