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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER
They miss these damn calls at 1st the most. Have no idea why, but they do this a lot.
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I think crowd noise is a factor. It's nearly impossible to focus your eyes on the foot hitting the bag and the ball entering the glove at the same time. The umps tend to listen for the pop into the glove, the foot hitting the bag or both. With a pending perfect game, I'm sure even that small crowd was making some noise during the play last night. Without his listening crutch, the ump flat out blew it. Props to the ump for standing up and admitting his mistake. A few other umpires in the league could learn from his honesty and humility.
Baseball already allows instant replays for home runs, how difficult would it be to expand that to bang bang plays on the basepaths?
Here's hoping Bud Selig does not succumb to the pressure to change last night's call. The bad calls have been part of the game from it's inception. If you change one play, you have to go back and change the rest. The can of worms he'd open up would be immense. Just fix it moving forward and let last night be.