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MLB to "Review Calls in the Booth," what's next?

Major League Baseball has been described as an essential summer ritual and (heaven help us) a metaphor for America.  It's also been described as exciting as watching paint dry.  Pitchers contemplate life between pitches, batters endlessly adjusting their batting gloves, managers saunter out to the mound to discuss the weather. Clearly, what baseball needs is something else to slow down the so-called “action”.  so, next year, Baseball may allow managers to challenge on-the-field decisions and “send it up to the booth” for replay review.  like in football, we could have more standing around and second guessing.  Under proposed rules, managers would get six challenges per game, two in the first six innings and four in the last three, just in case (heaven forbid) things were getting exciting.  no challenge of balls and strikes but close plays at any base and phantom catches would be ripe for the arguing.  Funny thing about baseball though; some advocates think the challenges, limited to 90 seconds, would speed things up.  When a paunchy manager storms out of the dugout and screams in the face of an umpire for five minutes arguing a call, a challenge, limited to 90-seconds, could be a godsend.  I’m willing to give the system a shot.  After all, my hero, Commissioner Bud Selig, is all for it, and we all know Bud's never made a bad call.  At least not since last week.

.....and that’s the way the ball bounces.





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