"WALK OFF HOMERS" PUT ON ENDANGERED LIST

I guess it was only a matter of time before the bitchin' and moanin' over the outrageous amount of erroneous home run calls would require video technology to come to the rescue.

I mean, with only 162 plus games, every flippin' call is crucial, right... and, with all the controversy over officiating, goodness knows we're bound to see a ball clearly lodged in Billy Bleacher's beer belly be called foul.

Holy cow! I just have to wonder who's brother-in-law is getting the contract for this one!

To the subject; how long will a batter wait, if he waits at all, for a determination on a "walk off"? 

If there are runners on base he can't start a trot, in lieu, however slow. With bases empty, I guess he could just stroll around and if the ruling comes in after he rounds second, can he just cut across the mound...getting sort of a half walk off? 

Or with bases empty he could stand there like a ninny waiting for the call...while some cinemagraphic wanna be camera man does close ups on the face of his frustrating wait. 

Maybe he could go to the dugout and grab a smoke? What if he already walked off...does he have to go back to the box and wait?

If you give "them" the homer call, what is next? I fear we could be seeing the beginning of the end of time honored baseball affectations. Imagine having to wait even a second to determine a balk. Come on!

There is nothing like the tension of a man on, in a tough inning, and then...the balk! Then the walk to the mound, the coach eyeing his pitcher nervously spinning the ball in his fist, the fans going crazy, the sweat dripping off noses, the wave to the bull pen.

Nah...let's just all take a trip to the concession stand while someone determines the fluidity of pitching motion relative to a hunk of rubber that has been trying to keep a low profile for over a hundred years.

This has to not happen. I have to admit that I never have liked the mystery tags in routine double plays. We know everybody's out on these things, but imagine the cameras determining tags and base touches. I guess the game isn't long enough. 

Here you go. Park two dead ass umps, one each at the foul poles on some kind of scaffolding they can sell advertising on .

Do it like at the carnivals with the water tank underneath...give them the first call and if replay proves him wrong, splash! Now that would be entertaining.