i want instant replay in all sports.

football, hockey, and basketball all use instant replay in certain instances to get calls right, and more often than not, they successfully do so.

i'm tried of watching baseball games where umpires blow calls horrifically. take, for example, last night, when the second base umpire called out angels' shortstop orlando cabrera for tagging up from second base too soon. not only was it a bad call, it wasn't even CLOSE. cabrera left the base WAY after trot nixon caught the ball. yet, the umpire still blew the call.

granted, the angels won anyway. but that's not the point. their manager and bench coach also got thrown out of the game for arguing a call about which they were obviously right.

this diatribe is not just because i saw the red sox get the benefit of a lousy call last night. the yankees have certainly gotten their fair share of awful calls over the years and this would affect them as much as anyone.

now, i know, the thought of instant replay in baseball makes some people shudder. i understand. i don't want this to turn into a situation where the umpries are rendered decisionless. but if each team were allowed ONE instant replay per game, that should be sufficient enough to take care of things like fair/foul home run balls, close plays at a base, or whether or not a player caught a ball that appeared to have been trapped.

i don't think i'm being unreasonable.

also, watching that epic match between andre agassi and james blake at the u.s. open the other night made me think that if any sport could make sure that it gets the call right every single time, it should be tennis. it should be easy to position camers to cover all the lines on a tennis court so that if a call was to be disputed, it could be checked easily. again, limit this to maybe two or three times per match for each player, so as not to ruin continuity too much, but, by all means, get the call right.

look, i can appreciate the element of human error. sometimes things are not perfect. but in certain situations there should at least be one chance for the team/player who got screwed to reverse their misfortune.

C'MON, AMERICA!! WHO'S WITH ME??

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so, it came to my attention last night that a certain friend of mine had this ingenius plan whereby he was going to hijack my blog and start writing on it as a guest writer. of course there are a few problems with his plan.

#1 -- my blog isn't popular enough for anyone to ever guest blog on it.
#2 -- he's a much better writer than me and would probably steal 3/4 of my audience (read: 6 people)
#3 -- i'd be forced to kick his ass and/or poison his supply of pot stickers from trader joe's.
#4 -- he's a mets fan and hates the yankees. and i won't tolerate someone else bashing the yankees on my blog. i'm the only one allowed to do that. just bash them in the comments like everyone else. by the way, nice game by pedro last night.
#5 -- no milk will ever be our milk.
#6 -- he'd have to find something else to talk about besides having sex with a tampon.

besides, i know you all love me and would be devastated if someone else started writing on here in my place. duh.

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