Instant Replay Will Only Interfere with MLB: Leave the Game Alone!

Above all else, a replay system causes fans, players, managers, and owners to lose complete faith in the umpires, and there would be much less emphasis on training and working to achieve perfection with the system put into place.

If the system were to be initiated in baseball, an umpire's call would make no difference. Whether the call was correct or not, a manager could challenge the call and it would be reviewed. Umpires would be essentially useless on the field with a technologically advanced system to make the calls for them.

Even ESPN's K-Zone, which has been great for fans to see at home, has hurt umpires of Major League Baseball because it has put their judgment into question.

The umpire may have picked up something that K-Zone did not and that may be the reason why a certain call was made. Umpires are there to make calls based on their own judgment, not based on what a computer says.

The entertainment value of an argument between a manager, or even a player, and an umpire is absolutely priceless. Fans love it. Baseball would lose a lot of entertainment value with a replay system put into place because it would put an end to these arguments on the field.

Managers and players would have no reason to argue with an umpire and risk getting ejected when they could just look at a replay to determine what the correct call was. I don't think that a replay would be much more entertaining than an argument. 

The future of baseball is in serious question here. It would completely take away the tradition of the game and the umpires' authority, who have worked so hard training to get where they are now.

If we want baseball to be the game it was supposed to be, rather than what it has become, instant replay is not the answer. Instant replay has no place in baseball and needs to be kept out by all means necessary.

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