> By long tradition, if not black letter law, that relative strike zone has also > always been relative to the position of the umpire...
"By long tradition," games ended when the sun went down, each league had its own umpiring staff, etc. Time marches on, and traditions change. Some of us may rue the addition of lights at Wrigley, but nobody worth listening to is calling for a re-institution of the pre-1947 color line. Officiating, in all sports, is evolving from the days when the only people who saw a play were at the game, and they only saw it once. Now, everybody in the stands and at home can see the play multiple times. In that situation, it's silly to make the officials the only people who aren't allowed to look at, or benefit from, a replay. That said, calls exist on an axis from obviously right (most) to obviously wrong. It makes sense to fix the wrong ones. The problem is that we're also going to look at close calls in the process, and reasonable people can differ about those, especially when wearing homer glasses. > Last night was maybe the worst strike zone in the history of baseball... it was embarrassing. If the automated system they use to help evaluate umpires can call balls and strikes consistently correctly, baseball should use it. (There's an umpires' union to deal with before it can happen, so it will be a while.) If they can avoid "embarrassment," that's a good thing. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
