Replay coming Friday to Trop

Instant replay will be used for games at Tropicana Field starting Friday under a plan MLB is expected to make official this afternoon.

Commisioner Bud Selig is scheduled to announce at 5 p.m. that replay will be used for series starting Thursday and Friday. The Rays open a weekend series against the Orioles on Friday.

Replay use will be limited to boundary calls in determining home runs - such as whether a ball cleared the outfield wall and was fair or foul. At the Trop, that likely would also include whether potential home run balls hit the catwalks.

Comments

[Mark]

Do you want the game done right, or do you want it just plain done?

Little League baseball is also 6 innings long. How about MLB adopts that too since the game is soooooooo loooooooong OH EMM GEE waaaah waaaaah waaaaaaaah!!!!1!1!!1!1!oNE!1 (sarcasm)

Keep in mind the LLWS has instituted instant replay as well. They didn't seem to need it this year, but they sure as heck needed it in 2005 when Maitland was screwed over when an umpire in LEFT FIELD awarded the batter with a double after the hit went off the foul pole.

The umpires may be correct in their calls 98% of the time, but the other 2% they were wrong happened to be against the Rays twice in less than a week, not that instant replay would have helped that.

Checking a replay would take no longer than a manager throwing a fit over a call, which they could still do Karl, since you need that so bad to be happy watching a baseball game it seems...

It's sad when the NHL has the best instant replay idea in sports. Takes less than 5 minutes and it's either yes, no, or inconclusive.

Having instant replay prove or disprove a call on the field is better than letting a clearly wrong call go unchanged for years.

[Karl]

CJ: The "manager and everyone else" gets paid to come out of the dugout and dispute calls. That's part of the show. Selig might learn something from The Little League playoffs last week: the kids got up and swung at the ball. Lots of action, no scratching and spitting. No stepping out of the box to get more TV time. No time-out after sliding to 2nd to clean off. No gold chains, fake fights, Maserati's in the air-conditioned parking garage. The umps called the game, not TV. These are innovations "Genius Bud" might consider instead of just trying to ape pro Football. A first-place team without anyone in the seats? It ain't the stadium.

[CJ]

If you feel that way about baseball Karl don't watch and keep your comments to your self.

I like the idea, it might even speed up the game because the manager and everyone else won't be out of the dugout disputing calls.

[Karl]

What a great way to slow down an already deathly-slow, civil war era game. Bud Selig, what a jerk.