If MLB wants to institute instant replay, it needs to be restricted to homerun calls only. Allowing officials to replay/review plays at any base or balls and strikes is not going to do any good for the game. Even with replay, it's still a subjective call. In football, it's clear that a player's foot is on one side of a line or the other. It's clear that a player caught the ball or didn't. In baseball, replaying/reviewing a play at first is still subjective. Did the runner beat the throw? Did the runner slide in under the tag? With football, you often have cameras on the field, just feet away from the action. In baseball, some of these shots are still 100+ feet away.

What MLB needs to do is change the policy in stadium design. Why are there so many bad HR calls? Look at the frickin' designs of these stadiums. Hills in the outfield, fences with 4 different height levels, etc. Put up a fence and if the ball goes over it, it's a HR. If not, it's in play. Simple. With the design flaws of today's stadiums, it's no wonder someone stading 200-400 feet away can't see where the ball lands.

To limit instant replay to just home runs is still unfair. Want to make things fair? Limit the number of instant replays for team per game. Football limits the number of challenges. Tim Kurkjian (spelling?) on Baseball Tonight argues that instant replay ruins the flow of the game. What about arguing for the call? Momentum and flow is lost during the game, either way. The institution of instant replay will not kill baseball, only merely enhance things. The object is to get calls correct. Once again, my verdict: instant replay should be admitted but on a limited use basis.

Getting the call right is more important than tradition.

Instant replay should be used in certain instances in order to maintain fairness (at least to some degree) for all the players and teams in the league.
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OK YC. Here's your irrefutable reason:
Every time an umpire's call is reversed, God kills a kitten.
If you don't have a problem with that, then let the cameras roll!

I do agree some with the poster talking about the weirdass design of some ballparks. Yellow lines going everywhichaway, this kind of fence or that kind of fence...WTF?
To quote Yogi: "Anybody that can't tell the differnce in the sound of a ball hitting plywood, and hitting a chainlink fence is blind."
(Or a foul pole and a seat.)
Interesting article here on lost home runs through the ages.
http://www.retrosheet.org:80/losthr.htm

Keep up the good work.

Girl, U look hot in that bikini :)
DS!