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MindzEye said:
Eh, this is a bad take.

Replay has made every sport better if the intent is to get the call right more often. When the call is wrong even with replay assistance, that isn't an argument for more human intervention into the officiating of the game, it's a call for less. The replay assistance wasn't wrong, it's that the human interpreting it couldn't even get the call right with the ability to slow it down and watch it over and over again.

Video review has made Tennis better, has been implemented extremely successfully in football (american and international), has been excellent in the NBA. The only league that managed to fuck it up to any degree was the NHL (shocking) but even they're figuring it out and changing poorly interpreted rules.

There is nothing worse in sport than the outcome of the game being decided by the absolute least capable (and in many cases, least necessary) human being in the equation. The whole point of sports is to find out who is better. A small handful of short stoppages (at most) during a game doesn't negatively effect the quality of the game remotely as much as poor officiating.
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Back in the day I used to think that replay would solve all the problems but now that it's been around fir awhile I'm beginning to wish it never happened. I'd rather live with the human error and get on with the game instead of these continual delays.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Back in the day I used to think that replay would solve all the problems but now that it's been around fir awhile I'm beginning to wish it never happened. I'd rather live with the human error and get on with the game instead of these continual delays.
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You're vastly over stating how many occur if you think they're remotely "continual". It's relatively rare for there to be more than one contested goal in a NHL game and they take ~3 minutes to get the call more or less "right". For example in 2019-20 there was a total of 142 coaches challenges across the entire league with a 57% success rate. That's 81 calls on just goals that refs got wrong.

No team was challenged more than 10 times total, so through this we know that no team saw more than 20 challenges occur in total, all season.

"continual"
 
MindzEye said:
You're vastly over stating how many occur if you think they're remotely "continual". It's relatively rare for there to be more than one contested goal in a NHL game and they take ~3 minutes to get the call more or less "right". For example in 2019-20 there was a total of 142 coaches challenges across the entire league with a 57% success rate. That's 81 calls on just goals that refs got wrong.

No team was challenged more than 10 times total, so through this we know that no team saw more than 20 challenges occur in total, all season.

"continual"
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It is a little annoying at times. I know in baseball after every close play, they have to zoom to the manager on the phone, waiting to see if he gets the thumbs up to challenge it or not. So I can sort of understand the mentality of "come on, are we allowed to celebrate this double play or not yet?" And I still find it incredibly annoying where the guy is clearly safe, but then gets challenged whether he leaves the base for half a frame while the guy is tagging him.

But it also fixes the egregious missed calls, where I'm not even watching and I can see the guy was safe and the ump was just zealous in wanting to make the out call.
 
I thought the Dodgers were done last night when I noticed that Mary Hart didn't bother showing up. Some fat Hispanic guy was sitting in her usual seat in the front row behind home plate. I guess she Stub Hubbed her tix.
 
Fuck the Rangers. I mean, I don't need a reason to say that normally, but yeah...when during National Bullying Prevention Month, one day is picked out to show support for the community and you specifically leave them out of your tweet to stand out from the other MLB clubs, that's just gross. That Twitter thread is just ugly too. People suck.
 
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Good for AA. From unpaid intern in the Montreal Expos ticket office to President and GM of a team in the WS.

Astros deserve to lose forever in the most embarrassing way so I’m cheering for Atlanta.
 
manny said:
Good for AA. From unpaid intern in the Montreal Expos ticket office to President and GM of a team in the WS.

Astros deserve to lose forever in the most embarrassing way so I’m cheering for Atlanta.
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His story really is the best. Unbelievable he became a top MLB GM
 
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Deckie007 said:
Indeed. Apparently they are the only club without a pride day too. Makes it less likely it was a mistake of omission.
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To be fair, they are a business first, last and always and a vocal segment of their customer base that doesn't want to hear it. The Rangers are clearly more worried about alienating some of their existing fans than they are about growing new fans.

The irony, of course, is that the people who will bitch about it on Twitter already don't go to games, so their threats of not buying tickets if the Rangers bow to the "woke" community ring hollow. It was the same story here in Edmonton when they changed the name of the football team from Eskimos to Elks. The people who got bent out of shape over it weren't going to games anyway and had probably not darkened the doors of Commonwealth Stadium since Warren Moon was the quarterback.

But in the end, money is the only thing that matters. The Yankees tweet was worded the way it was because to exclude LGBTQ would hurt them financially. The Rangers omitted LGBTQ because (they believe) that including it would hurt them financially.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
To be fair, they are a business first, last and always and a vocal segment of their customer base that doesn't want to hear it. The Rangers are clearly more worried about alienating some of their existing fans than they are about growing new fans.

The irony, of course, is that the people who will bitch about it on Twitter already don't go to games, so their threats of not buying tickets if the Rangers bow to the "woke" community ring hollow. It was the same story here in Edmonton when they changed the name of the football team from Eskimos to Elks. The people who got bent out of shape over it weren't going to games anyway and had probably not darkened the doors of Commonwealth Stadium since Warren Moon was the quarterback.

But in the end, money is the only thing that matters. The Yankees tweet was worded the way it was because to exclude LGBTQ would hurt them financially. The Rangers omitted LGBTQ because (they believe) that including it would hurt them financially.
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Yep. they are in Texas. It's like politicians telling people in their state/province what they want to hear but they don't believe in any of it.
 
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