Terence Moore of the Atlanta Journal Constitution doesn’t want to see instant replay in baseball because he thinks it would take away from the essence of the game.
No instant replay, please. Not in baseball, where breath-to-breath squabbles between umpires, managers, coaches and players are as much of the game’s soul as the seventh-inning stretch, the national anthem and a box of Cracker Jack.
Quick. How many blatantly wrong calls do you recall in baseball history? Before you answer, the last few days don’t count, because they were a fluke.
For good reason. With instant replay, there aren’t highlights for the ages of Ralph Houk, Billy Martin and Earl Weaver kicking dirt and slinging caps. With instant replay, there isn’t Bobby Cox adding to his record each week for ejections from a game. With instant replay, there aren’t blown-calls legends, ranging from Don Denkinger to Jeffrey Maier to Ken Burkhart.
So baseball shouldn’t adopt instant replay because we wouldn’t get to see managers scream at the umpires? That’s a pretty ridiculous take on this whole debate.
