Anybody frustrated with the use of instant replay?

[Unknown Pleasures]

I recently started watching more basketball and baseball and wow are there ever more replays than I remember.

Baseball has gone nuts with challenges over slides into home or second. Basketball is reviewing fouls like mad.

I think a little human error in officiating is just par for the course. On the other hand, some of these are really killing momentum in the game.

Tennis and the NFL to me have done it right. Especially tennis because they have that dramatic hawk eye zoom in, but I am really not liking basketball's amount of reviews and especially baseballs.

I think the fix is easy....

Baseball. Can only get 1 (maybe 2) "challenges" wrong before you can't challenge any more. And the challenge has to be demanded by the player involved or the team manager within 10 or 15 seconds of the play's conclusion. None of this dial in from the booth stuff.

Basketball should be limited to one wrong challenge per half per team. Or from upstair with under two minutes to play kind of like the NFL.

Thoughts?

 

[Michaelangelo]

Should only have replays for the last 2 minutes

 

[Graves The Elder]

it was bad enough when it was limited to football.
but now it seems almost every sport has it.
it slows the game down, in the case of baseball an already painfully slow game,
and only has marginal impact on the original call statistically.

it's a symptom of the litigious nature of society IMO.
sue, ask for an injunction, demand a review of a play, etc.

soon, we'll see team attorneys on the sidelines to file in game briefs
regarding plays and player behavior.

god help us

 

[therealdope]

Sign of end times IMO.

 

[jefferz]

it was bad enough when it was limited to football.
but now it seems almost every sport has it.
it slows the game down, in the case of baseball an already painfully slow game,
and only has marginal impact on the original call statistically.

it's a symptom of the litigious nature of society IMO.
sue, ask for an injunction, demand a review of a play, etc.

soon, we'll see team attorneys on the sidelines to file in game briefs
regarding plays and player behavior.

god help us

Hockey does it right.

 

[Graves The Elder]

hm, NHL needs to speed it up too, IMO.
put a time limit on it.

 

[Michaelangelo]

hm, NHL needs to speed it up too, IMO.
put a time limit on it.

More power plays imo

 

[bdthrill]

I recently started watching more basketball and baseball and wow are there ever more replays than I remember.

Baseball has gone nuts with challenges over slides into home or second. Basketball is reviewing fouls like mad.

I think a little human error in officiating is just par for the course. On the other hand, some of these are really killing momentum in the game.

Tennis and the NFL to me have done it right. Especially tennis because they have that dramatic hawk eye zoom in, but I am really not liking basketball's amount of reviews and especially baseballs.

I think the fix is easy....

Baseball. Can only get 1 (maybe 2) "challenges" wrong before you can't challenge any more. And the challenge has to be demanded by the player involved or the team manager within 10 or 15 seconds of the play's conclusion. None of this dial in from the booth stuff.

Basketball should be limited to one wrong challenge per half per team. Or from upstair with under two minutes to play kind of like the NFL.

Thoughts?

Well in baseball you only get 2 like you said so your change isn't helping. I really dont think it's slowing the game that much and I just want them to get it right

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

Well in baseball you only get 2 like you said so your change isn't helping. I really dont think it's slowing the game that much and I just want them to get it right

Getting two though in the context of the player involved in the play immediately making hte call is totally different context tho.