NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball reversed its long-standing opposition to instant replay and will allow umpires to check video on home run calls in series that start Thursday.

 

Commissioner Bud Selig was scheduled to make the announcement at 5 p.m. ET Tuesday.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3554357

hooray.

This will be the beginning of many future ad ons to the use of instant replay in baseball. No way it will be just home runs forever.

Let's just get robots to be umpires as well. I don't mind if it stays this way just for homers, but I'm sure it won't.

Never thought I'd say this, but Kenny Rogers nailed it in that article, IMO.

Great. It's damn near impossible for umpires to make some of those calls while sprinting down the line. I really don't understand the opposition to it.

 

Rogers tears apart his own argument. He thinks its just because they blew a call for Arod, but then says that they've blown the HR call thousands of times. Uh, sorry, that's not "beauty." Huge, game-changing errors of an umpire's judgment of a ball 200 ft away shouldn't be a "historical" part of the game.