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Again ..... not about the call on the field ........it's about the replay review and how they don't have enough evidence and/or, what they're seeing.... Your browser does not support iframes. ......from the video, I was able to capture this ....

Freedom of speech or freedom to buy the biggest bullhorn?

Will MLB umpires need to make out/safe calls after the 3rd out, in case an out is overruled? oh boy... http://mlb.si.com/2014/03/07/tampa-bay-rays-instant-replay-rule-loophole/

So, from a memo sent out by MLB to broadcast rights-holders, some troubling details on replay and how it will work this year: "Managers who are out of challenges may request that the Crew Chief review a play in the 7th inning or later". In other words, if you're out of challenges...you might not be out of challenges. If you've lost two challenges, why do you deserve another? Shouldn't there be SOME penalty for being bad at challenges?? So there's no limits to challenges? Or more arguments and ejections if challenges aren't accepted? I bet that will go down well. "Managers may argue plays or request that umpires convene to discuss a play without invoking a challenge." WHAT?!? Wasn't this supposed to *reduce* the clown acts?!? Is baseball simply too short and action-packed that we have to have replays AND arguments? Why does this need to be so complicated? Note: contents of memo reported by Dan Bernstein, Chicago sports talk host at 670 am (broadcast partner for White Sox)

MLB Press Release 1/16/2014 2:43 P.M. ET MLB clubs unanimously approve expansion of instant replay Major League umps will serve as replay officials, who will make final call; All replays may be shown in-park PARADISE VALLEY, AZ - The 30 Clubs of Major League Baseball have unanimously approved the expansion of instant replay, which will be in effect for the 2014 Championship Season and the 2014 Postseason. The historic announcement was made this afternoon, at the conclusion of MLB's quarterly owners meetings. Both the Major League Baseball Players Association and the World Umpires Association have given their consent to the game's new protocols for instant replay. MLB's new system of instant replay dictates which plays are subject to review, how instant replay will be initiated by field managers and how the review process will be conducted. As a part of the expansion of instant replay, Clubs will now be allowed to show all replays on the ballpark scoreboard, regardless of whether the play was reviewed. "I am very pleased that instant replay will expand to include additional impactful plays," Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig. "The new system will give managers valuable recourse in potentially game-changing situations. The opportunity for our fans to see more replays in our ballparks is also an important modification that the Clubs and I favored. "I thank the Major League Players and Umpires for their cooperation with this change, which will serve our shared game well. I also extend my gratitude to John Schuerholz, Joe Torre, Tony La Russa, Peter Woodfork and Chris Marinak, all of whom worked extremely hard to make this highly complicated task a reality." Managers will have at least one challenge to use. If any portion of a challenged play is overturned, then the manager who challenged the play will retain the ability to challenge one more play during the game. No manager may challenge more than two plays in a game. Once the manager has exhausted his ability to challenge plays during the game and after the beginning of the seventh inning, the Crew Chief may choose to invoke instant replay on any reviewable call. Home run and other boundary calls will remain reviewable under the procedures in place last season. A designated communication location near home plate will be established at all 30 MLB ballparks. There, the Crew Chief and at least one other Major League Umpire will have access to a hard-wired headset connected to the Replay Command Center, which will remain at MLB Advanced Media headquarters in New York. Major League Umpires will be staffed as Replay Officials at the Replay Command Center. After viewing video feeds, the Replay Official will make the ultimate determination of whether to overturn the call, based on the continuing standard of whether there is clear and convincing evidence. Instant replay will be utilized during some televised games in Spring Training for the purposes of educating on-field personnel on the rules of the new system. Other protocols of the new system for instant replay are as follows: PLAY TYPES The following play types will be subject to review: Home run Ground rule double Fan interference Stadium boundary calls (e.g., fielder into stands, ball into stands triggering dead ball) Force play (except the fielder's touching of second base on a double play) Tag play (including steals and pickoffs) Fair/foul in outfield only Trap play in outfield only Batter hit by pitch Timing play (whether a runner scores before a third out) Touching a base (requires appeal) Passing runners Record keeping (Ball-strike count to a batter, outs, score, and substitutions) All other plays will not be reviewable; however, the Umpires may still convene on the field at any time to discuss the play. INITIATION OF INSTANT REPLAY Field managers may initiate replay review on one reviewable play per game by verbally indicating his intention to challenge, in a timely manner, to the Crew Chief. Guidelines will be established to determine whether a challenge is timely. The manager may request that the umpire review multiple portions of the same play, but he must specify exactly which portions of the play he is challenging. If any portion of a challenged play is overturned, the manager who challenged the play will retain the ability to challenge one more play during the game. No manager may challenge more than two plays in a game. Once the manager has exhausted his ability to challenge plays during the game and after the beginning of the seventh inning, the Crew Chief may choose to invoke instant replay on any reviewable call. In that circumstance, the Crew Chief is not obligated to invoke instant replay if requested by the manager. Home run calls that are currently subject to instant replay review will continue to be reviewed at the Crew Chief's discretion. Managers may request that an Umpire review a home run call, but managers cannot challenge home run calls. REVIEW PROCESS Once instant replay review is invoked (either by the Manager or the Crew Chief), the Crew Chief will signal to the official scorer that the play is under review. The Crew Chief and at least one other umpire will then move to a designated communication location near home plate, where they will have access to a hard-wired headset connected to the Replay Command Center in New York. Major League Umpires will be staffed as Replay Officials at the Replay Command Center, located at MLB Advanced Media headquarters, for all Major League games. The Replay Command Center will have direct access to video from most cameras in the ballpark in real-time, regardless of whether they are shown on the live broadcast. The Replay Official will look at the video feeds and determine if there is clear and convincing evidence to overturn the call on the field. If the Replay Official overturns a call on the field, he will also use his judgment to determine where to appropriately place runners if the play had been called correctly on the field. The umpires on the field will not have a monitor to review the play and they will not leave the field at any time. The Replay Official will make the ultimate determination of whether to overturn the call. On-Field personnel may not argue with the decision of the Replay Official. CLUB ACCESS TO VIDEO To determine whether to challenge a play, personnel in the dugout will be permitted to communicate with a video specialist in the Clubhouse who has access to the same video that is available to Replay Officials. This communication will occur via the dugout phone. Both the home and visiting Clubs will have standardized technology to ensure each Club has equal access to all video. No monitors or additional electronic equipment will be permitted in the dugout. SCOREBOARD REPLAYS Clubs will now have the right to show replays of all close plays on its ballpark scoreboard, regardless of whether the play is reviewed.

With replay looming, could 'neighborhood play' be a thing of the past? Jeff Passan By Jeff Passan 16 hours ago Yahoo Sports http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mlb--with-replay-looming--could--neighborhood-play--be-a-thing-of-the-past--220641926.html The "neighborhood play" is one of those things that makes sense only in baseball's vacuum of illogic. The rationale behind it goes something like this: Because runners slide hard into second base and can hurt fielders trying to turn the double play, the fielders are allowed to catch a throw in the neighborhood of the second-base bag without tagging it and still draw a force out. Never mind the attempted catcher decapitations at home plate continuing unabated. Safety for middle infielders' legs is sacrosanct. One of the more egregious neighborhood plays occurred in Game 4 of the ALCS on Wednesday, when Boston's Stephen Drew caught a Dustin Pedroia throw a full foot off the bag. If Drew was in the neighborhood of the base, Detroit is in the neighborhood of Los Angeles. It was that obvious, and it prompted a fair question from the masses. Will instant replay fix it? The answer is maybe. The officials on Major League Baseball's committee to determine replay rules have spent dozens of hours locked in a room arguing over the sort of minutiae replay advocates cannot fathom. The general sense coming out of those meetings is that while replay is in theory a great salve, there is genuine concern that it will fundamentally change baseball's pace to its detriment. Much of the caterwauling over replay comes from fans who savor long, clinical games. To add more time runs the risk of turning off those who already consider the game plodding. If MLB wants to call the play correctly – it would be odd to have replay for bad calls and accept that umpires let force plays stand with a foot off the base at second while they would never do that at first, third or home – there is a solution. It would necessitate a rule change in addition to the adoption of replay, one used in almost all lower levels of baseball. In college, it is called the "Force-Play-Slide Rule," and in the NCAA baseball rulebook, it reads as such: The intent of the force-play-slide rule is to ensure the safety of all players. This is a safety and an interference rule. Whether the defense could have completed the double play has no bearing on the applicability of this rule. This rule pertains to a force-play situation at any base, regardless of the number of outs. The rule draws a direct path between the baseline and the second-base bag, leaving middle infielders either side of the base on which to plant their feet. If the runner at all interferes with him, the umpire must call the runner out. Interference includes a number of possibilities, from a cross-body takeout slide to a slide with a leg high in the air to a rolling slide. Should a runner interfere, both he and the batter would be out. By giving a direct mandate to runners and discretion to umpires to call interference, MLB would make it clear that it expects middle infielders to have their feet on the second-base bag when turning double plays, thus opening the window for them to be replayable. Of course, this would necessitate the approval of players, which may be the toughest part were it to get the committee's stamp. The takeout slide at second base is a staple of baseball, evident in almost every game, and the force-play-slide rule, if not outlawing it, would at least endanger it. As the committee meets and hammers out what Instant Replay 1.0 will look like, the neighborhood play will come up – and, if they're smart, they'll look at the force-play-slide rule. Replay's goal should be simple: Get right everything it can get right. And when a player a full foot off the bag in a vital postseason game records an out, that is something worth righting.

I don't blame him one bit for not seeing it in real-time, virtually no one did. Not seeing it on replay, though? Oh, Angel.... http://mlb.si.com/2013/05/08/as-lose-to-indians-after-angel-hernandez-blows-game-tying-hr-call-twice/ (with video at the link, couldn't directly link) here's the video scrounge, ...I'll do it for you http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=26965213&topic_id=11493214&c_id=mlb&tcid=vpp_copy_26965213&v=3