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COURTESY YANKEES 'N MORE

If you are one of those who thinks instant replay is the answer to what ails Major League Baseball's postseason, you might want to think again.

And no, this has nothing to do with our stand that you should either fix ALL the calls or leave them all alone--something that becomes clearer with each passing hour of Fall baseball.

And no, this has nothing to do with the potential for six-hour games if replay further invades the sport.

This has to do with the umpires and their growing incompetence.

For example, consider crew chief Jerry Davis' take on Thursday night's short-hopper to Ryan Howard--a play that should have left the Yankees with the bases loaded and only one out in the seventh, but one that instead was wrongly ruled a double play.

"The objective is to get it right, we asked each other what we had seen and the replay confirmed we got it right," crew chief Jerry Davis said.

So you think replay is going to fix baseball, do ya???

This is a veteran crew chief we're talking about here.

This is THE guy whom Major League Baseball hand picked to run the World Series in the hopes a spreading some calm in what has been just a horrific postseason for the umpires.

And even after the benefit of sitting down after the game and watching HD replays of the ball bouncing into Howard's glove, MLB's Chosen One STILL can't get the call the right.

There is an old saying that those who frequent the horse tracks will be familiar with, which is used to describe those who have no idea what they're doing when wagering. "He couldn't win if you let him bet AFTER the race."

A little hyperbole never hurt anybody. But it's not an exaggeration anymore.

Even after "the race," and after watching multiple replays of the same play every red-blooded American saw on National TV, umpire Jerry Davis not only STILL got it wrong, but bragged about it to the media.

Replay is not the answer. Better umpires is the answer.

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