déjà vu all over again

Baseball is toying with the concept of instant replay, and I can see why. You watch bad calls happen and then get played over and over again of jumbotrons or at home on TV and you shake your head. Then there are other sports. It helps (sometimes) in football, and tennis, etc. Why not baseball?

Baseball, to me, has a certain charm other sports don't. It's the game with no time limit (note last nights all star game). It's the game where different umpires have different strike zones, and part of the game is figuring your umpire out, and what you can get away with and what won't fly...or might fly out of the park if you're not careful. I can see instant replay for certain things. I can buy it for home run/not home run, and foul/not foul. Beyond that, I don't want it. I don't want it reviewing safe at the plate, or balls and strikes. Please leave a bit of the human element in there. Now, granted, this is coming from the same guy who hates the designated hitter in the American League and thinks interleague play needs to crawl back in whatever hole it came out of, and couldn't text anyone anything on his phone if his life depended on it, but still. Some things are pretty darned good just the way they are. Don't mess with them....too much.