Comments on: Instant replay costs the Tigers a run. Sort of.

By: jm91rs

jm91rs — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:41:17 +0000

Incredibly smart to try and force the inning to end early by intentionally getting thrown out.

By: scotttheskeptic

scotttheskeptic — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:18:42 +0000

Craig, contrary to your belief, not all fans, nor even all readers of this blog want replay. Baseball is game of failure, played by humans. Enjoy that aspect. Inevitably, the rules governing replay become more hypertechnical than the situations they were meant to correct. I could go on, but…

By: cur68

cur68 — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:10:09 +0000

Pretty much. Whatalotta folderol,

By: leftywildcat

leftywildcat — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:39:42 +0000

Third base ump should have called him out when he touched home. Shouldn’t have needed to be any more to it than that.

By: sanzarq

sanzarq — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:28:55 +0000

You hit the nail on the head, Brian. I’m in complete agreement with your position, but I actually also enjoy some of that deceit. As they say, these things tend to even out over time. I don’t want replay to govern every aspect of the game. If it starts to expand, then I think there has to be a strict limit set on how many challenges can take place in a game, otherwise, things could get ridiculous.

Besides that, Calcaterra is getting on my nerves lately, so I had to chime in, for that alone!

By: weaselpuppy

weaselpuppy — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:45:48 +0000

The funniest part was that after the final throw over to 3b, the 3b steps on the bag, then tags Berry……and the 3rd base ump gives the “out” sign….and then does it again and as part of the motion then points at home plate, looking to me like he is calling Avila out……so in reality it looks like he calls Berry out first…….which would mean that Avila’s run is good!

But then next inning Miggy says “Si, MF!”….and it’s back to 5-0. All is right in the world….

By: natslady

natslady — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:37:28 +0000

What is with missing the bases? I read Jonny Gomes missed home plate in the O’s-A’s game and “no one” noticed.

By: Lukehart80

Lukehart80 — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:03:08 +0000

When they took the run off the board, I assumed it was just to give the Tigers a handicap so that the Indians might have a chance at winning. Alas, it was not handicap enough.

By: Brian Donohue

Brian Donohue — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:33:36 +0000

Deceit is an aspect of the game, and from the ten inch pile of dirt in the middle of the diamond, deceit is the cornerstone of the game. That, from a psycho-ideological perspective, is the one thing that fuels the insane, you might say Freudian, resistance to video replay review, at a time when the tech is fully developed and working in other sports (football, tennis, and that other sport with only one Tiger where the players call fouls on themselves anyway).

Deceit is part of the game’s drama, even its skill: if I throw the ball with these 2 fingers it comes at you 95mph; if with these other 2 instead, it’s about 85mph, and I want you to believe it’s one when it’s really the other. This is why politicians and judges love baseball: their lust for deception is given credence in the game. Technology (used properly) confounds deceit, exposes it clearly. So in a culture where deceit is rewarded, encouraged, even admired, technology is despised and resisted. So write Dear Bud letters till your fingers turn blue; nothing will change because deceit is one strand of baseball’s DNA.

By: tannethrill

tannethrill — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:17:47 +0000

Huh? Was the run recorded and removed absent a replay? Was he called safe at home and then they threw him out at third?

That sounds ridiculous.