Somehow it doesn't surprise me that MLB has made a mess of implementing instant replay. If you are going to have it, two things should be very clear:
1. Challenges have to be made quickly. You can't have the game going on and then someone challenging a ruling that was made several plays ago.
2. If a challenge is made and does succeed then the state of the game has to be reset to the point at which the challenge occurred. You can let people go on with administrative stuff like substitutions while the challenge is being considered, but they should have no effect if the challenge reverses the ruling.
I should also add that it seems quite ridiculous that baseball should require the batter to run around the bases for a home run to count. It is nice theater, but aside from that all it does it create a possibility for really annoying disputes about whether the runner actually touched the bags correctly. Cricket does not require a batsman who hits a 4 or 6 to run up and down the wicket for the runs to score. Indeed, half the point of going big is to remove the need to run, which can be very important if you have been batting for a while and your knees are aching.
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Date: 2008-09-27 12:16 pm (UTC)1. Challenges have to be made quickly. You can't have the game going on and then someone challenging a ruling that was made several plays ago.
2. If a challenge is made and does succeed then the state of the game has to be reset to the point at which the challenge occurred. You can let people go on with administrative stuff like substitutions while the challenge is being considered, but they should have no effect if the challenge reverses the ruling.
I should also add that it seems quite ridiculous that baseball should require the batter to run around the bases for a home run to count. It is nice theater, but aside from that all it does it create a possibility for really annoying disputes about whether the runner actually touched the bags correctly. Cricket does not require a batsman who hits a 4 or 6 to run up and down the wicket for the runs to score. Indeed, half the point of going big is to remove the need to run, which can be very important if you have been batting for a while and your knees are aching.