Thursday, September 30, 2010

Should it be allowed?

There is a large controversy whether or not video replay should be allowed in Major League Baseball.  One perspective, is that it would ruin the authenticity of the game.  On the other hand, humans make mistakes.  If you leave it to an umpire to make a call, they will eventually blow a call that a simple replay can overturn.  Take for example, Football coaches are allowed to challenge plays which the referee may have missed.  Many times there have been calls overturned because of human error. A perfect example from baseball is Gallaraga's "almost" perfect game. With two outs in the top of the ninth, Gallaraga made the final pitch which was grounded to the first baseman who flipped it to Gallaraga for the the potentially final out.  No one had reached baseball the entire game, no walks, no hits, no errors.  The perfect game was hanging on this last play.  The ball hit the Gallaraga's glove before the runner hit the bag.  Clearly he was out, but the umpire called the runner safe.  Just like that a perfect game is gone and a humans error cost an athlete his glory.  If replay was allowed in baseball, this clearly would have been changed and Gallaraga would have been rewarded a perfect game, which only a handful of pitchers have ever done in the history of baseball.

1 comment:

  1. I look at it like this -- In sports or activities such as horse racing, motorsports, track and field -- there is abundant use of third party or electronic tools to determine times, accuracy, etc. Why shouldn't it be allowed for other compettive sports? Maybe it is just the culture of the sport?/kc

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