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MLB leans toward extra replay for 2012
"Major League Baseball is leaning toward expanding replay for the 2012 season to include trapped balls and fair-or-foul rulings down the lines, a person familiar with the talks tells The Associated Press." http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AjlBiZxms_miIOoEd29YyyI5nYcB?slug=ap-replay-2012
NYT writer on instant replay: "The technology is available. Get it right."
Nothing mind-blowing here, but it's nice to see someone at the Gray Lady beating the drum in favor if increasing the use of instant replay (though he doesn't touch on balls and strikes). Excerpt: "There is an inherent accountability gap between players and managers on one hand and umpires on the...
Tennis line judges are more likely to make mistakes when calling balls "out" rather than "in", say...
Tennis line judges are more likely to make mistakes when calling balls "out" rather than "in", say researchers. This was [due] to a time lag of a few hundred milliseconds between an image hitting the retina and the viewer processing it, the team said. This bias, revealed in Current Biology,...
Wall Street Journal Piece on Instant Replay
Written by a gentleman named Allen Barra. Nothing earthshaking here, but a solid overview nonetheless. And he even mentions a famous play involving our own Chicago Cubs. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122091435773412249.html
Instant replay starting Thursday
Pretty much what it says....instant replay will be in place starting Thursday. discuss. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3554357
MLB to propose instant replay
Clearly following my lead after personally calling for this months ago, MLB is going to propose some kind of instant replay. "A top baseball official will formulate a proposal for instant replay, and the technology could be tested in the Arizona Fall League this year. Jimmie Lee Solomon, the...
"I [expletive] it up. I'm the one who thought it was a [expletive] foul ball. I saw it on the...
"I [expletive] it up. I'm the one who thought it was a [expletive] foul ball. I saw it on the replay. I'm the one who [expletive] it up so you can put that in your paper," Davidson said. "Bolts and nuts, I [expletive] up. You've just got to move on. No one feels worse about it than I do."...
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