PGage, to JW, in part: > > My solution, which I have advocated here (and many other places in my > life) for a couple of years is to ban super slow motion from use in > correcting calls. I don't have any objection to using replay to correct > obvious mistakes (there have been a few, but only a few, real boners in MLB > post-season history). Mistakes that can be easily seen on real-speed, and > maybe even regular slow motion, mistakes that a large majority of > professional officials would have corrected in real time if they had the > opportunity, can and should be easily and quickly corrected, and there > would not be very many of these. Mistakes that require super slo motion and > non-human scale precision are not really "mistakes" - they are part of the > zone of uncertainty in which we all life our real lives. I don't want > televised sports to create and perpetuate the myth that we can expect > error-free zones in which to live our lives.[snip] >
Thank you. I don't recall anyone remembering any recent playoff game or series for super-slo-mo. If they had, competing media would be (begging the rightsholder to allow) showing the same replay(s) on their air. And, just to justify this conversation for those who think it has gone > hopelessly off topic: This is a problem that as has been noted by others > here is created largely by the transition of professional sports from a > live, in-person event to a televised event. I don't object to many of the > changes in these games that have been required for that transition, but I > do think we have to be vigilant to make sure that we don't sacrifice the > essence of the sport to make for good TV. I suppose we could pass a rule > that once a team fall behind my more than 4 runs every run it scores will > be multiplied by two. That would save TV baseball from boring wipeouts, but > it would so fundamentally change the game that it would not be worth it. > > You'll see a return to games being suspended when significant weather intervenes first. B -- -- 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/d/optout.
