Baseball could add instant replay within two weeks

The Houston Chronicle is reporting that Minute Maid Park will have an instant replay system up and running within the next week.

McLane, who recently returned from the owner’s meetings in Washington, said he expects baseball to begin using instant replay for questionable home run calls within the next two weeks.

“The commissioner makes the decision,” McLane said. “(The teams) get back to him and tell him when they’re ready, and he’ll get with the umpire and give them their instructions. It’s not far away.”
Instant replay was a hot topic at the owner’s meetings, where baseball commissioner Bud Selig outlined his proposal to the owners.

No vote was required because adding replay is not a rules change.

Baseball general managers voted 25-5 last November in favor of replay.

Under the commissioner’s proposal, the umpires would decide which calls get reviewed via replay and a decision would be made by the crew chief after consulting the replay.

Each ballpark will have monitors and phones installed near the field.

The main argument against instant replay is that it will slow down the game. Even if that’s true, what’s the difference? What’s the difference between a three-hour game and a three-hour and fifteen-minute game? Getting the calls right should be the most important thing for the league – period. And with all the technology at our fingertips these days, why not have instant replay in all the parks?

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