Major League Baseball's general managers voted overwhelmingly to recommend the use of instant replay. It would be used only for homerun boundary calls (fair/foul & in-the-park/out-of-the-park) and fan interference. At least to start (insert slippery slope argument here). The initiative, the logical consequence of Peter Ueberroth's $1.5B deals with the devil (CBS & ESPN), still needs to be approved by the owners, players, and umpires.
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Will sports represent the last ground taken by the dictatorship of relativism? Where else is there so much passion about "getting it right?" Alas, I don't think the motives here are that noble, nor does replay really represent objective truth in the abstract.
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My take is pretty well summed up by Ryan Robbins' piece from a decade ago. Baseball is a game of inches and angles. It's foolhardy to think parallax-laden cameras can add all that much, even if they should happen to help "get it right" a handful of times. And at what cost to the grand old game?
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