Sour grapes! The replay was not that difinitive. If you are going to play baseball, you learn to deal with these type of things...sometimes it is not clear in the replay as in this case. Six inches fair---that was a fantasy. Kids are told that if it comes down to one play, you need to make more hits. Suppose the Marlins never heard that!

Umps should be professional enough to ask for the other opinion.

Picture this, it's the bottom of the 9th and the home team is trailing by one. There are 2 outs and a full count with bases loaded. The batter hits the ball to the short stop he bobbles it but gets off a throw. The runner is called out but the big screen shows he was clearly safe. Riots break out and several people are injured. There are over three hundred arrest and the loss due to fires and looting total over 20 million dollars. All because the little boys of baseball don't want to grow up and allow instant replays for the umps to change calls or verify that they where right. Each manager can call for two replays a game if they are wrong, an out is added to their next at bat.

And by the way if an ump is found to have over 5 calls overturned in a season he or she is sent back down to the minors for one season.

Is it going to take a riot to bring baseball into the future?

"That was the worst call I've ever seen in my 30 years of professional baseball," manager Edwin Rodriguez said.

WRONG

One word: Gallaraga

Replay!

"We can do it.

We have the technology"- Bionic Man

Bud Selig and his traditionalists are letting the wretched umps kill the game.

Davidson is one of fat ass old guard - The Ken Kaiser's, John McSherry's, Eric Gregg's Joe West's who thought everyone was there to see them and hated the fact that people were there to watch the players play and could care less if they made the right call. Didn't matter to them. Supreme Court Justice's had less job security than a MLB umpire.

Umps are not "killing the game." Whiners who can't deal with reality are. 100+ years without instant replay and yet we've all made this far - how did that happen? Get back to your cribs and leave us adults alone. What we get without instant replay is more drama, more intensity, no intentional fouling as in basketball where the whole momentum of the game is killed in almost every fourth quarter of almost every game and a game that is still played in real time without delays imposed because most of you can't live without an cellphone for 30 seconds without having a seizure.

The "human factor." Traditionalists remain steadfastly wedded to the notion that the human factor is a critical component of the game, and it is. The human factor of team A and the human factor of team B will always be able to turn the outcome on its head and there's nothing wrong with that. If your 3rd baseman makes an error and our player scores, even though your pitcher had only given up no hits over 9 regular and 6 more extra innings, so be it. And if our outfielder forgets how many outs there are and, after catching the soft lazy fly that would have won the game for us and instead of returning the ball to the infield, tosses it to an appreciative fan while two runs score and you beat us on a day we should have won, so be it.

The human factor of the players on the competing teams is necessary because it simply cannot be eliminated or there wouldn't be a game; it is sometimes a crushing blow and other times, welcome comic relief. E.G, my wife and I were in a very popular and crowded sports bar in NY on a Friday night in 2009 when the last Yankee popped up to second with the tying and winning run on base, and the hundreds of Met fans in the place went nuts, their roar could be heard in the next town; and when the Met second baseman unbelievably dropped the ball that a little leaguer could have caught behind his back without a glove, the emotional shift was seismic in favor of the Yankee fans. The moment was precious, no matter which side you were rooting for.

What made this spectacular example of "human factor" turning the outcome on its head was the fact that it was one of the competitors at the eye of the hurricane, not an umpire!

Now that the technology exists to purge extraneous "human factor" from the game, let's get it done and move on and stop whining about "tradition" and such. There are bad traditions, you know; allowing umpires to change the outcome when they don't contribute any of the talent, preparation, sacrifice, conditioning, sweat and blood that goes into the game, nor suffer the consequences of their ineptitude, is just not right.

Don't even get me started on balls and strikes, where the traditionalists have no problem that umpire Joe has his strike zone and umpire Louie has his, and so on, when we all know that there is only one strike zone, which belongs to baseball, and the technology now exists to eliminate this most grievous distortion of the game once and for all.

And what's with the stubborn reluctance to correct obvious mistakes when the moment is still alive? I don't get it. In every other aspect of our lives, we fix our mistakes as quickly as possible, from erasers on pencils, to "spellcheck" n our PC's. But not baseball. I don't get it.

Gotta stop now.