Nugland

I’m not bringing this up because of any call I saw tonight (though there is a recent call that now comes to mind), I’m just tired of American baseball being so awful about adding a video replay official to their game.

It is simple. Give the on-field officials one more, er, official hand gesture: ‘go to the video’ (Cricket, a game that has been played since the early 16th freakin’ century, has an easy one: The Ump draws a box in the air above his or her head with his or her fingers).

If the video official can tell what happened, the result is reported to the field. If not, some sort of signal is sent to the field and the field official uses whatever judgement he or she has and makes a call.

This gives the official on the field an out when they aren’t certain what just happened, but leaves the judgement calls on the field. And it could happen really fast.

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