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]]> By: Susan Foster http://seamheads.com/2009/10/23/rambling-on-about-my-post-glory-days-bring-on-the-red-flags/comment-page-1/#comment-14835 Susan Foster Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:47:04 +0000 http://seamheads.com/blog/2009/10/23/rambling-on-about-my-post-glory-days-bring-on-the-red-flags/#comment-14835 In response, Jack, to your interesting and creative ideas, I do think games would become so long that what little TV audience baseball can attract, more fans would be lost. With every player have one or more red flags, 30 seconds isn't really 30 seconds. By the time, they throw the flag, the powers to be watch the video, the result is communicated, and play resumed, most interruptions would still be 60 seconds or longer. Multiply this by the number of red flags available, and the potential for a game under three hours would rarely exist any longer and four hours would be the norm. As a former local, national and international official, it is so easy for anyone to cast judgement on any close call. I officiated in Barcelona in 1992 in a venue that had one full section of TV monitors so those with a visual impairment could watch the competition on a screen. The problem was that anybody could see those video monitors and watch instant replays of every single call made. Lest I say more. Instead, while this solution probably won't gain much support, we need to get back to the purity of the game. Get rid of all instant replay and let the game be a game. As you said, players make errors, so, too, can officials. It's the human nature of the game and what makes it so interesting and exciting. The business of sport and baseball will probably never allow this because the outcome has become too commericialized. It's too important to be the winner and second place is never good enough. Yes, the errors in the baseball playoffs have been observable. Too bad a long and respected career of an official can be judged and tossed aside due to one call. Too bad every single play and decision by the players, the coaches, the sportswriters, and the CEO'S aren't judged on the TV screen; perhaps sympathy and understanding would be tools in their basket of compassion.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14835','Susan Foster'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14835','Susan Foster','In response, Jack, to your interesting and creative ideas, I do think games would become so long that what little TV audience baseball can attract, more fans would be lost. With every player have one or more red flags, 30 seconds isn\'t really 30 seconds. By the time, they throw the flag, the powers to be watch the video, the result is communicated, and play resumed, most interruptions would still be 60 seconds or longer. Multiply this by the number of red flags available, and the potential for a game under three hours would rarely exist any longer and four hours would be the norm.\r\n\r\nAs a former local, national and international official, it is so easy for anyone to cast judgement on any close call. I officiated in Barcelona in 1992 in a venue that had one full section of TV monitors so those with a visual impairment could watch the competition on a screen. The problem was that anybody could see those video monitors and watch instant replays of every single call made. Lest I say more.\r\n\r\nInstead, while this solution probably won\'t gain much support, we need to get back to the purity of the game. Get rid of all instant replay and let the game be a game. As you said, players make errors, so, too, can officials. It\'s the human nature of the game and what makes it so interesting and exciting. The business of sport and baseball will probably never allow this because the outcome has become too commericialized. It\'s too important to be the winner and second place is never good enough.\r\n\r\nYes, the errors in the baseball playoffs have been observable. Too bad a long and respected career of an official can be judged and tossed aside due to one call. Too bad every single play and decision by the players, the coaches, the sportswriters, and the CEO\'S aren\'t judged on the TV screen; perhaps sympathy and understanding would be tools in their basket of compassion.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> In response, Jack, to your interesting and creative ideas, I do think games would become so long that what little TV audience baseball can attract, more fans would be lost. With every player have one or more red flags, 30 seconds isn’t really 30 seconds. By the time, they throw the flag, the powers to be watch the video, the result is communicated, and play resumed, most interruptions would still be 60 seconds or longer. Multiply this by the number of red flags available, and the potential for a game under three hours would rarely exist any longer and four hours would be the norm.

As a former local, national and international official, it is so easy for anyone to cast judgement on any close call. I officiated in Barcelona in 1992 in a venue that had one full section of TV monitors so those with a visual impairment could watch the competition on a screen. The problem was that anybody could see those video monitors and watch instant replays of every single call made. Lest I say more.

Instead, while this solution probably won’t gain much support, we need to get back to the purity of the game. Get rid of all instant replay and let the game be a game. As you said, players make errors, so, too, can officials. It’s the human nature of the game and what makes it so interesting and exciting. The business of sport and baseball will probably never allow this because the outcome has become too commericialized. It’s too important to be the winner and second place is never good enough.

Yes, the errors in the baseball playoffs have been observable. Too bad a long and respected career of an official can be judged and tossed aside due to one call. Too bad every single play and decision by the players, the coaches, the sportswriters, and the CEO’S aren’t judged on the TV screen; perhaps sympathy and understanding would be tools in their basket of compassion.

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