Reply #87: Indeed - I never said that bad calls MUST continue to be part of the game. [View All]

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I was merely countering your argument that you implied earlier - which you perhaps didn't mean to imply - that bad calls are NOT part of the game.

Semantics, maybe; but it's an important point in relation to the specific issue of the OP: which is that, as the game is TODAY, *bad calls are part of the system* and therefore this call SHOULD NOT (and really, cannot without violating the rules) be reversed.

big difference to argue about what is versus arguing about what ought to be.

personally, as I said up above, I'd rather keep baseball free of the pollution of technology and keep it a purely human game. But, there's certainly reason that the rules can't be changed to allow it. The rules have been changed before, and surely will be changed in other ways about other things that come up in the future (imagine zero-gravity three-dimensional baseball games!).