Sunday, October 14, 2012

HBT: Selig backs expanded replay for 2013

Bud Selig has repeatedly downplayed the outcry for expanded instant replay this year, which is why this comment from a Q & A with Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times on Thursday was pretty surprising and downright refreshing.

You have said you want to expand instant replay to include reviews of fair or foul balls and trapped balls. Will that expanded replay be in place for next season?

?I think we?ll have it for sure. They?re working on cameras in all the ballparks. We need the right cameras. Should we have them by next year? We?d better.?

That?s what we have longed to hear from Selig for a long time now, but actions speak much louder than words. Expanded replay for fair-or-foul balls and trapped-or-caught balls was actually negotiated into the new collective bargaining agreement last November, though the implementation was subject to negotiations between MLB and the umpires? union. It was announced back in March that the two sides weren?t able to come to an agreement in time for this season. MLB also wants to make sure that they have the proper technology in place in all 30 parks. Let?s hope Selig has more sense of urgency to get this done than he has shown with the committee on the Athletics-to-San Jose case. Thursday?s answer was a pretty good start, though.

By the way, Shaikin?s Q & A is worth a read. Selig addresses a wide variety of topics, including the new Wild Card format and whether he showed a double standard by allowing the Moores to take $200 million in TV money from the recent sale of the Padres, but wouldn?t allow Frank McCourt to do the same with the Dodgers. Really interesting stuff.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/13/bud-selig-wed-better-have-expanded-replay-next-season/related/

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