Anybody else feel like the team's getting to hold up the game to watch their own replay before challenging kinda goes against the spirit of video replay?
I think so too, but what's the best alternative? If you're batting, you can take a realllllly long time to come up to the plate. If you're pitching, you can walk around the mound and stuff and get "warned" by the ump about throwing another pitch. And if you're about to come off the field or go out to the field, you can take a long stroll in either direction. There's no great way to enforce a time limit (even if they put one in the rules) because there's no clock in baseball for anything else.
what does donaldson know about Juvenille slow motion! I hate him. would look great in rainbow colors.
Well, the point is if you believe it's a wrong call you can go to replay to challenge and maybe overturn if you're right. Not to have the manager come out and take a piss, find out whether or not he's right or wrong before taking action. If you think you're right, act. If you don't know, well, that's the gamble isn't it? Knowing the outcome isn't in the spirit of challenging a call.
I guess you can't really enforce time limits since there's no clock but like a hurry up offense trying to rush to snap it and move on (sorta) the ump should say if you're challenging then challenge and if not sit the hell down and let us continue on.
The point of replay is to get the call right...not institute a game show-like contest of "did you see it correctly?" A lot of times, it's the umps instituting the replay.
I find this topic that Brownie and Blum are talking about to pretty interesting about how teams would steal other teams signs and what signals they use to tell the hitter. I hope Ashby just stays away.
Replay but not the point of challenging, I believe this train leads toward replaying everything and not really having umpires.
