I don't like it either, mostly due to slippery slope concerns.
As a bit of an aside, the debate over replay and adding time to the game has brought back the age-old argument about the intentional walk, which I have never understood:
"Hey, if you want to speed up the game, for God's sake, don't make the pitcher actually throw four balls for an intentional walk!"
OK, let's break this down. How many intentional walks are there, on average, in a game? Maybe one?
How long does it take to throw those four pitches? I bet it's less than 30 seconds.
Games average three hours long. Saving that 30 seconds results in a less than a third of one percent of the total game time.
So, why do people always bring this up, and usually quite passionately, as a surefire way to speed up the games?
I'm trying to imagine these people... these are people who watch all these three-hour games, sit through all those commercial breaks between innings and at every pitching change, sit though all those throws over to first base, sit through all the hitters stepping out of the box to spit, all the meetings on the mound, etc etc., sitting through all of that patiently and enjoying the relaxing pace of the game, but then when it's time for an intentional walk, DEAR GOD I HAVE TO SIT THROUGH THIS AGAIN????????
Hard to figure...
