Read: Delgado “HR” Calls for Instant Replay
At his ESPN.com blog, Buster Olney writes that Carlos Delgado‘s blown home run call by home-plate umpire Bob Davidson was one more example why instant replay should be used.
Olney explains:
“The Mets wound up smoking the Yankees and so the blown call was not pivotal, but so often disputed home run calls can be pivotal. I don’t think instant replay should be used broadly in baseball, but for home runs — why not? Hopefully, the general managers who are reviewing the possibility of instant replay will advise the commissioner to implement replay for 2009, and hopefully the commissioner will act”
…i disagree with olney…if instant replay were to be used in baseball, it should include the close plays on the bases which can determine the outcome of a game just as much as a home run…
…i understand the baseball purist in all of us don’t want to see the game slowed down anymore with instant replay timeouts…but if every tv broadcast can magnify the close plays, why shouldn’t the umpires be afforded the same technology to get the call correct…
…added to by Regis Courtemanche…
…umpires should definitely be able to use instant replay for hard-to-judge home runs, but that’s all…it’s a slippery slope once replay is used for anything more than home runs, i mean, where would it end…just like Carlos Beltran‘s home run should not have been revoked on April 2nd, delgado’s never should have been called foul…neither resulted in a loss, but it’s only a matter of time until it does…
