This sucks fucking huge.
It's terrible.
Kill it.
Kill it with fire.

Praise the sun.

They just need to speed it up. Take a couple looks. If there's nothing overwhelming, the call stands.

Modify it so that it is objective and doesn't reward MLB's pet teams or something

I'm assuming this is you being funny.

It's about as close as I come, yeah.

The idea that there is some imperative to get every call correct is flawed and it's fucking up the game. The beauty of baseball is that it's a metaphor for life and life is imperfect. Sometimes you just get fucked, not because anybody was out to fuck you, but just because that's the way life is. And no matter how hard we try to smooth it out, we can't. So now, all you've done is making the game longer with a guy in New York making a mistake rather than a guy on the field. Replay sucks.

I don't like PitchTrax either. Yes, there are umps with inconsistent strike zones, but for the most part, the game has survived just fine. I think calling balls and strikes is difficult, and I'm actually impressed when umps make the right call when it looked like a ball or strike to the naked eye. But I don't need that stupid overlay for every pitch.

As an aside, I wish they would call the strikezone as it's written in the rules.

it's definitely of no use in the NL. teams are just tanking so they can join the AL. replay just slows down that assimilation.

The idea that there is some imperative to get every call correct is flawed and it's fucking up the game. The beauty of baseball is that it's a metaphor for life and life is imperfect. Sometimes you just get fucked, not because anybody was out to fuck you, but just because that's the way life is. And no matter how hard we try to smooth it out, we can't. So now, all you've done is making the game longer with a guy in New York making a mistake rather than a guy on the field. Replay sucks.

Yeah, I disagree slightly. I agree with this philosophy on plays that are too close to call. In those situations, just go with the human call, regardless of if they ar noff by an inch that can't even be seen on a replay. However, if there's a blatantly wrong call, and everyone realizes it, including the umpires, overturn it... but that should be the mindset on the reviews. If there's nothing obvious to overturn it on the first couple glances, leave it alone.

Get the calls right.

Why are there only two real answers with no middle ground in the poll? Did Boilermaker Rick take over your account?

My take is this, if there were some way to get every call right and the games could be officiated perfectly, it might be worthwhile to take all the baggage that comes with stopping play for examination, etc. But since that's absolutely impossible and always will be, I'd rather avoid all the nonsense and just let 1.8% of the calls be bad instead of getting it down to .09% or whatever the numbers are.

I know you pulled that 1.8% out of your ass, the average game has what ? 275 pitches? I bet 10% are wrong..27-28 ...that's not even counting the plays on the bags.

A strike is a strike ..a ball is a ball.. As intended, you were a big fan of that horseshit neighborhood play too..why do you like mediocrity? I hate umps changing games with huge strikezones or squeezing guys.