replay reviews
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They should have 30 seconds for the review. If they can't decide then go with the call on the field.
Could the technology account for different heights of players and the way that some crouch or stand more upright?
Baseball's biggest problem is taking 20 minutes once a pitching substitution is made. Why in the hell does the pitcher get another 10 minutes to warm up on the mound after just spending the past hour throwing in the bullpen?
Agree 100%. Hell, take a couple of warm up pitches and lets go, they have been warming up in the bullpen for the last 20 minutes.
And the playoff games are not taking four hours, like someone said above, KC won their final game in 2:40, which is unusually fast for a playoff game, I admit, but the new rules have helped to speed things up a bit.
But the constant pitching changes can be brutal . . . that too is true, and why DVR is one of the great inventions in modern society.
When Garrett Johnson caught that TD pass against EKU did you actually get up and celebrate? I didn't. I never do anymore once I see a great catch like that. The reason is that I don't know if it actually happened for about 5 minutes. There is no joy on a great play anymore (at least for me) because I know that it hasn't happened yet. I remember Mike Golic's response to that and he said we'll just celebrate later. The same momo also says that celebrations should be spontaneous (and they need to be spontaneous otherwise it isn't a celebration, it self advancement).
The biggest BS lie I used to hear when replay was first starting was "we just want to get the obvious stuff." Anybody that ever said that is either a liar or just plan stupid. If you couldn't see how this would get prostituted to the point where it is now where anytime someone is 6 inches short on 3rd down they want the spot challenged. We need to spend 5 minutes looking at a replay from 5 different angles trying to piece together if a guy was able to get control and get a foot down. Meanwhile in the middle of the field some guy is committing a penalty so flagrant that a 5 year old could see it but it doesn't fall into the "challengeable" category. So no, you aren't even getting the obvious stuff.
I went to a Bengals game a few years ago and actually decided to time things. The exact time the game started and ended and then I put a stopwatch on the replay reviews. I forget the actual numbers now but basically 7% of the time I was there was spent waiting on replay review. That included halftime.
Football has absolutely no flow to it anymore. Momentum essentially doesn't exist. If you do make a great catch you have no chance to keep the adrenaline going and pour it on because you have to stand around waiting. By the time the ball is put back in play everyone needs to stretch again, much less have any adrenaline pumping.
The only place it does make any sense in tennis and maybe balls and strikes (absolutely nothing else in baseball).
And yes, I do know it's here to stay because people would rather ***** and complain about how they got screwed than actually overcome adversity. Everyone wants to be a victim.
Thanks for listening.
The biggest BS lie I used to hear when replay was first starting was "we just want to get the obvious stuff." Anybody that ever said that is either a liar or just plan stupid. If you couldn't see how this would get prostituted to the point where it is now where anytime someone is 6 inches short on 3rd down they want the spot challenged. We need to spend 5 minutes looking at a replay from 5 different angles trying to piece together if a guy was able to get control and get a foot down. Meanwhile in the middle of the field some guy is committing a penalty so flagrant that a 5 year old could see it but it doesn't fall into the "challengeable" category. So no, you aren't even getting the obvious stuff.
I went to a Bengals game a few years ago and actually decided to time things. The exact time the game started and ended and then I put a stopwatch on the replay reviews. I forget the actual numbers now but basically 7% of the time I was there was spent waiting on replay review. That included halftime.
Football has absolutely no flow to it anymore. Momentum essentially doesn't exist. If you do make a great catch you have no chance to keep the adrenaline going and pour it on because you have to stand around waiting. By the time the ball is put back in play everyone needs to stretch again, much less have any adrenaline pumping.
The only place it does make any sense in tennis and maybe balls and strikes (absolutely nothing else in baseball).
And yes, I do know it's here to stay because people would rather ***** and complain about how they got screwed than actually overcome adversity. Everyone wants to be a victim.
Thanks for listening.
My main beef is why the eff is it not reviewable for everything? It single-handedly cost us a national title this year due to Wisconsin being given those free two points that were obviously after the whistle.
I used to agree with the OP but in this age of technology we cannot referee sports the same way they did 100 years ago. Not fair to the teams and players. Everything that happens today in sports can lead to better contracts, championships and money. Missed calls must be fixed.
Think of that poor SOB pitcher from the Tigers who pitched a perfect game a few years ago but the first base ump blew the call at first which would have been the 27th out. A PERFECT FRIGGING game,,,Are you kidding me?? There have only been like 20 some perfect games in the history of baseball and this kid pitched one only to have it taken away by an ump. Maybe that was ok 50 years ago, but today we have the technology to get it right, so get it right, no matter how long it takes.
Think of that poor SOB pitcher from the Tigers who pitched a perfect game a few years ago but the first base ump blew the call at first which would have been the 27th out. A PERFECT FRIGGING game,,,Are you kidding me?? There have only been like 20 some perfect games in the history of baseball and this kid pitched one only to have it taken away by an ump. Maybe that was ok 50 years ago, but today we have the technology to get it right, so get it right, no matter how long it takes.
MLB thinking is medieval. Selling could have reversed that the next day since he got the very next guy out. It was the right thing to do but no, some egomaniac lard *** umpire ruined an earned perfect game and made it about himself and MLB allowed it.
Thank God for replay because human incompetence knows no bounds.
Thank God for replay because human incompetence knows no bounds.
He is more well known for not getting the perfect game then he ever would have been for getting it.