Why Baseball Needs to Resist Instant Replay

Love it or hate it, MLB cannot go to instant replay. Its not that replay wouldn't make things better. It’s simply because it is not part of the game. How many times when you were growing up and playing baseball did you have bad calls affect your game? Whether it is good or bad, it always happened.

I know that whenever I heard an umpire call something in my favor, I couldn't deny that I certainly enjoyed it a little bit. Of course there is that time when you had the call against you and it wasn't as satisfying as the previous occurrence. The more you play the baseball I feel, the more you learn to enjoy things like at as part of the game.

I can't even how much more dull baseball would be if every play where reviewed or even challenged, that would just seem stupid and odd. This isn't like the NFL where they make drastic changes to the game every year to make the odds fairer this is baseball.

Gone would be the times when you see a manager bust out of the benches and throw bases and just that extra excitement. That for me just wouldn't be baseball.

As far as game changing calls, anyone who has played baseball knows that usually the calls balance themselves out. After all, the odds are 50/50 that one team wins. In a season where over 100 games are played, making each game worth less than one statistical percentage, I'm sure the good calls and bad calls will balance out.

You can call me old school, but I don't care. I think that even as accurate as instant replay is, Baseball needs to stay true to its roots, and that means resisting instant replay. You could even say instant replay would be a steroid to the record books.

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