Most managers in favor of instant replay

[Clem Fandango]

Jayson Stark interviewed 24 out of the 30 managers and most were in favor of some form of instant replay expansion. There's a whole article about it here with all the gory details:

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&page=rumblings100916

 

The gist of it:

 

So while we've never been mistaken for Zogby International around here, we did our best. We were able to survey 24 of baseball's 30 managers on replay. And here's what we found:

 

• They're in favor of it -- heavily. Of the two dozen managers who responded, 18 were open to expanded replay in some form, only two (Cleveland's Manny Acta and Arizona's Kirk Gibson) were opposed, and the other four said they preferred to no-comment their way through this minefield.

 

• Most said they would prefer a system in which either an umpire in a booth or a replay official at MLB headquarters decided which plays to review.

 

• But several -- including Bochy -- said they would favor a manager-challenge system similar to the one tried this year at the Little League World Series.

 

• There was almost unanimous sentiment for using either replay or some other technology to get fair/foul calls right.

 

• And most, but not all, of the managers who were willing to get specific favored using replay, in some form, for calls at all four bases.

[Derwood]

Bud Selig won't change anything unless there is a hugely embarrassing call in the post-season that could have been overturned by replay

[lumafia]

So....managers think it's important that the umpires get the call correct? We really needed to see results of a survey to uncover that?

[TruffleShuffle]

Bud Selig won't change anything unless there is a hugely embarrassing call in the post-season that could have been overturned by replay

 

http://media.nj.com/yankees_main/photo/phil-cuzzi-twins-yankees-b4e2c495297165bc_large.jpg

[Derwood]

Bud Selig won't change anything unless there is a hugely embarrassing call in the post-season that could have been overturned by replay

 

http://media.nj.com/yankees_main/photo/phil-cuzzi-twins-yankees-b4e2c495297165bc_large.jpg

 

not embarrassing enough, seemingly

[Guest]

Bud Selig won't change anything unless there is a hugely embarrassing call in the post-season that could have been overturned by replay

 

http://media.nj.com/yankees_main/photo/phil-cuzzi-twins-yankees-b4e2c495297165bc_large.jpg

 

not embarrassing enough, seemingly

 

It's because it didn't happen to the Yankees.