{"id":6418,"date":"2010-06-04T15:03:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/06\/replays-in-baseball.html"},"modified":"2010-06-04T15:03:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T15:03:06","slug":"replays-in-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/06\/replays-in-baseball.html","title":{"rendered":"Replays in Baseball?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a><\/span>Football is better because of replay, and so is basketball better. But baseball, the national pastime? Yes, watching replay monitors to see if a ball was a home run or a fair ball … that seems fine.<\/p>\n

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But once we open up replays to see if a runner was “safe” at 1B … it would turn baseball inside out. Can you imagine how often Billy Martin would have been protesting a call at 1B if he could have had replay? <\/div>\n
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My vote is in: I vote “No!” (Not that I’m being asked by the Commish or anything.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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