Would Expanded Replay Technology Make Baseball Perfect?
It’s been less than 48 hours since umpire Jim Joyce’s blown call with two outs in the ninth inning cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga the 21st perfect game in Major League Baseball history. Having acknowledged his mistake, Joyce has broken down and cried on the field. Galarraga has said he forgives the ump. General Motors gave the pitcher a Corvette convertible. Emotions are clearly running high. Many fans are calling it the worst whiff in sports history and clamoring for an expanded use of replay technology to avoid such human failures in the future. Currently, baseball uses replay only to review home run boundary calls, but the capabilities for wider use are already available. With the flick of a switch, every call in baseball could be determined not by umpires, but by cameras, computers and sensors. Perhaps more than any other sport, tech-tools could effectively be used to ensure the play-calling accuracy of baseball. But should they be? What kind of game would it be if u
