What Have Sports Come To?

As you watch sports movies that were based in the past you begin to realize that the games played were completely different, beside the fact that in baseball, players didn't wear helmets, and in football players had leather helmets.  Games were called from the perspective of officials not from video replay. 

A traditionalist would tell you that blown calls are simply a part of baseball, but isn’t there so much more to the game’s tradition then an umpire making a mistake? There is no reason why longtime fans should be upset with umpires being able to review and correct their mistakes. They just need to enjoy everything that makes baseball great and not approve of its most glaring flaw. Show me one fan that is able to put up with an umpire’s mistakes and I will show you one that is not passionate enough about a great game to be considered more than a casual observer. How is it acceptable for blown calls to be continually allowed after TV’s around the country and scoreboards at games can instantly show an umpire’s mistake? Well let me tell you, it’s not.

I think that quote explains pretty well why people do not want technology to interfere with baseball and also why it should.  Blown calls are part of the history of baseball, but fans, coaches, and players do not want a game decided by a blown call, a no hitter to become a one hitter, or a perfect game to be blown at the last out of the game.  All sports need to have rules for use that everyone can understand. Explain it to the coaches because in baseball, I do not think they understand completely how it works.  Also, umpires need to understand how it works too!  It is also a little embarrassing that the Little League World Series allowed coaches to challenge a play and MLB teams can't.  I do think that MLB will come around eventually.  They just need to work out a few kinks along the way.