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Strike Three For Electronic Replay
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June 24, 2008
Keith Testa
Strike Three For Electronic Replay
Can we please put some kind of moratorium on all electronic strike zone replays during MLB telecasts? First ESPN invented the K-Zone, perhaps the only tool that could make Joe Morgan more maddening to listen to. And now NESN has provided our beloved Don and Jerry with a similar contraption during every Red Sox telecast. Has this sort of replay ever enhanced a broadcast? What’s especially funny about NESN is the new dead-on centerfield camera – because the tiny replay dots still look a good six inches from where the pitch appeared to land with the naked eye. Who’s calibrating these things, anyway? A blind dwarf? Shouldn’t at least some of the dimensions appear accurate? I guess if we can take anything from the technology it’s how difficult the umpires have it. And that’s telling in itself – if I come away from any part of an MLB broadcast feeling empathy for the umpires, something has gone terribly awry. So can we please create a moratorium before the playoffs – If I have to listen to Tim McCarver and watch an electronic strike zone in the same broadcast, I might sell my TV.
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