You're one of those "human element" people, eh? (pulls out old-fashioned pocket spiral notebook, opens it, leafs to a particular page, makes a small mark, closes notebook, puts back in pocket)
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:49 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Expected, but, in my view, a disaster for MLB. I detest what video review > has done to most sports where it is used (only exception IMO is tennis, > where it actually makes the sport more watchable). > > Soon enough they will replace every live spectator with some sort of > electronic measuring device, and sports will be nothing but a tv show. Why > not use a linked electron microscope so we can be absolutely sure of those > close out of bounds and goal line plays? Because nothing matters except > "getting the call right". > > Replay influences the play on the field; officials are incentivized to > make certain kinds of calls, in certain directions, in order to facilitate > review. Determinations are made at a level of sensitivity not available to > the human eye at real time speeds, so that the game as actually played > often has little relationship to the game as called by the officials. My > recommended iron rule for all replays is this - no slow motion. Sometimes > umpires and officials make obvious mistakes because they were out of > position or not paying attention to the right thing. If this can be easily > determined in a real-time replay, then perhaps there is value in correcting > the call. But any "mistake" that can only be corrected by multiple viewings > of super slo motion replays from 4 different angles is not a mistake at the > human level that the game is played at, and should be ignored. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
