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No surprise to wake up this morning to countless columns about how Major League Baseball must expand their use of instant replay.

This, of course, in the wake of last night's game at Yankee Stadium when Joe Mauer had what should have been a ground-rule double wrongly ruled foul in game 2 of the ALDS between the Minnesota Twins and the New York Yankees.

So should MLB use instant replay on more calls?

Absolutely NOT, says us!

But this was SO predictable… MLB opened Pandora’s box when they went to replay on HR calls, and now there will always be demand for more and more use of it, every time there is a questionable or bad call.

Our view is this: If you’re going to “fix” SOME of the calls, then fix them all!

This idea that well, THIS call is somehow more important than THAT call is ridiculous. How many times does replay prove a bang/bang call at first was wrong???

What happens the next time that wrong call at first the third out of an inning when it shouldn’t have been, and there was a runner coming home from third??? Now we have to replay those calls, too.

What happens when an umpire behind the plate has a bad night, such as Chuck Meriwether did last night, and he calls strike 3 on what replays CLEARLY show should have been ball 4, and the bases were loaded??? Now we have to replay those calls, too.

The first thing we have to realize is that EVERY call matters. Go ask a hitter the difference between 2-2 and 3-1... Go ask Mauer or Alex Rodriguez if the call on that 2-1 pitch is "important."

Remember, before last night it was thought that the only calls that "mattered" enough to use replay on were ones where a home run was at stake. Then Mauer gets robbed on a double, and all of a sudden, that's not the case anymore.

So let's stop pretending that this call is important and that call is not. Either fix ‘em all or leave ‘em all alone. We vote for the latter.

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