Why are umpires needed in baseball, besides a home plate umpire to call balls and strikes when just about any other ruling it seems can be questioned, reviewed and overturned? ….. and often are, seemingly one or two a game. You don't need umpires for the obvious calls (just go with the honor system) and the others can be made by someone with a monitor and access to different camera angles. It just doesn't feel like humans are making the judgments anymore when everything can be reversed.
If it's decided to keep most judgements eligible for review then teams should not be able to hold up the game while managers look at a call in their dugouts and decide if they want to have the umpires formally review it. The team decision to review a call ought to be made instantly and not after ten or twenty seconds to look at a replay and think about it.
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