by Keaston Bonnell

Created on: February 01, 2010

One of the major problems in Baseball at the moment is instant replay. Major League Baseball (MLB) just started using instant replay in may of 2009, but only for home runs. This is a huge issue because lately it has been used for only reviewing home runs, and umpires have been making huge mistakes. Umpires have been costing teams games because of one wrong call. This is upsetting the teams and even more the players that the umpires directly targeted with their call. The umpires have not only cost teams regular season games but they have also been making the wrong calls in the post-season when there are six umpires instead of the normal four. In one survey for MLB players and managers, they do not want to expand instant replay in MLB. The Phillies’s manager Charlie Manuel wrote a five paragraph, 18 sentences, and 403 words answer about why he doesn't want instant replay. The last sentence of his paper he wrote "You leave something alone if it's working." But the problem is, is that it is not working, and it does need to be fixed.

    The question is "why are we just now looking at instant replay in baseball"? The National Football League (NFL) has been using instant replay since 1986. That a 23 year difference from when MLB started using it just for home runs. Not many fans want to use instant replay for base running, catches, and even pitching. The reason that people have just now started knowing this is because of technology. In the early 1900s you could watch the games on a television, but you did not have the replays that are shown after big plays, or for mistakes. Mistakes that the players make and that umpires make. Even if people did see this back in the early 1900s their televisions would not of had "High Definition" like the modern televisions do now. Another reason that people did not notice the blown calls back in the 1900s would have to be because the commentators did not look into every call or play. And if they are not going to, what would make everyone else on the television do it? Players, Coaches, Umpires do not want instant replay because they want to keep the game of baseball "America's Pastime". And how are they going to do that by changing the game. But on the flip side if they want to keep the game of baseball the same as it was, why do players or even coaches get mad when a umpire makes a wrong call?

    In my own opinion I believe that the pre-season as well as regular season, MLB should just use instant

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