Monday, November 5, 2007

Instant replay?

The time has finally arisen. Next week general managers from all around Major League Baseball will deliberate whether or not they should implement instant replay into games for the upcoming season. (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3092628). Personally I think it is about damn time they did adopt instant replay. Major League Baseball should have implemented instant replay as soon right when NFL did. There have been way to many close calls in games. Even more importantly many games have been decided by bad calls. Just by one bad call, teams can loose a slot in the playoffs or even a shot at the Wild Card. Remember the Wild Card Playoff between the Rockies and the Padres? The Rockies left fielder Matt Holiday supposedly touched the home plate underneath Michael Barret's cleat. When I looked at the instant replay there was no sign of him touching the seat therefore the run should not have counted and maybe the Rockies should not have advanced to the playoffs and eventually the World Series. This shows that instant replay would be a great and important addition. So many plays in baseball can be justified in one simple replay. MLB should take advantage of this opportunity to adopt instant replay. As I said before the NFL has used it and has had tremendous success with it. Major League Baseball might as well follow the trend of the highest grossing sport in America. MLB get to it.