Fortunately for Tim McLelland and the rest of the umpiring crew at last night’s game 4 between the Yankees & Angels, the Yankees ran up the score and the bad calls didn’t impact the game’s outcome. But the sad and troubling fact remains: video replay is exposing not just inconsistent strike zones, but flat out missed tags and blown calls from tag-ups and base stealing to tags and foul balls. What’s more, the fans and commentators are have grown tired of it and are silently wondering: “Why do we need those extra umps in left and right field during the playoffs? The only thing they’re looking at are foul pole hits and fan intervention stuff, play that video can call more accurately than the human eye.” Bud Selig needs to let video replay into the game before human error changes a game’s outcome.
