A routine pickoff throw by the catcher to 2nd base is too late,
but look again...
the shortstop follows through with another timely tag...
It was so good, so quick, so alert....and the umpire that was closest, called the base runner safe, twice because the eye has a tough time seeing the instant...
With video, the umpires had to do a double look, in minute or 2, to 'make-the-call', 'out', to overturn the initial 'safe' call on the field.
Apparently some biased witnesses, the home fans, did not appreciate the correct call.
Go figure.
Yet, the instant, can also a teachable moment. (or not)
Here is a link
http://www.downvids.net/andrelton-simmons-makes-heads-up-play-654476.html
Many times though, a video angle does not provide incontrovertible evidence, or enough fact, to overrule a call on-the-field, or on-the-court.
With the delays in game progression etc., maybe 'video' detracts more than it adds to the game. And besides, that, it seems that some intentionally try to find referee work arounds to the video aspects (ala, poor camera angles / perspectives, like no camera look straight along the goal line or first down markers etc....using the review delays or commercials to interrupt a teams momentum... etc. etc.) It is making technological solutions, look silly and with that, it is causing the desire to spend more and more on cameras. etc.
How about just adjusting to the reality, that people make mistakes? (via technological, or natural)
And let "the games" be more freely played, with less obstacles - and within the rules...and let people learn from their mistakes, to make for a better play next time (at home, on-the-field, in the classroom, at work etc.)
When there are real words, by real people that goes directly along with a real video / action, and / or enough multiple angles of the same instant...it can become revealing for others to confirm, to see the truth and / or change their mind, over time.
(i.e. PP and Stem Express are in obfuscation, stonewall, blame others mode such that 'making-the-call' about some revealing audio / videos may take days, weeks, months, years, not a minute or 2...
ironically, to $ave their livelihood
(but, not to save innocent lives).)
Go figure
p.s. (without prior provocation, interference, without acting)... the alert, coy, shortstop made the split second tag, and used the potential value of the video, not just the ump, to get the "out". Watch him.
But what if the video was not made available for others to see, and understand (disgruntled or approvingly)?
The 'out' runner would have been presumed 'safe'...and others would disbelieve the shortstops' claim that he earned the base runners out and, unrewarded for an honest good job, he may become less motivated to become a better player, make a good play the next time etc.
hmmm...
Seeking the whole truths....
imho
I do not know
but look again...
the shortstop follows through with another timely tag...
It was so good, so quick, so alert....and the umpire that was closest, called the base runner safe, twice because the eye has a tough time seeing the instant...
With video, the umpires had to do a double look, in minute or 2, to 'make-the-call', 'out', to overturn the initial 'safe' call on the field.
Apparently some biased witnesses, the home fans, did not appreciate the correct call.
Go figure.
Yet, the instant, can also a teachable moment. (or not)
Here is a link
http://www.downvids.net/andrelton-simmons-makes-heads-up-play-654476.html
Many times though, a video angle does not provide incontrovertible evidence, or enough fact, to overrule a call on-the-field, or on-the-court.
With the delays in game progression etc., maybe 'video' detracts more than it adds to the game. And besides, that, it seems that some intentionally try to find referee work arounds to the video aspects (ala, poor camera angles / perspectives, like no camera look straight along the goal line or first down markers etc....using the review delays or commercials to interrupt a teams momentum... etc. etc.) It is making technological solutions, look silly and with that, it is causing the desire to spend more and more on cameras. etc.
How about just adjusting to the reality, that people make mistakes? (via technological, or natural)
And let "the games" be more freely played, with less obstacles - and within the rules...and let people learn from their mistakes, to make for a better play next time (at home, on-the-field, in the classroom, at work etc.)
When there are real words, by real people that goes directly along with a real video / action, and / or enough multiple angles of the same instant...it can become revealing for others to confirm, to see the truth and / or change their mind, over time.
(i.e. PP and Stem Express are in obfuscation, stonewall, blame others mode such that 'making-the-call' about some revealing audio / videos may take days, weeks, months, years, not a minute or 2...
ironically, to $ave their livelihood
(but, not to save innocent lives).)
Go figure
p.s. (without prior provocation, interference, without acting)... the alert, coy, shortstop made the split second tag, and used the potential value of the video, not just the ump, to get the "out". Watch him.
But what if the video was not made available for others to see, and understand (disgruntled or approvingly)?
The 'out' runner would have been presumed 'safe'...and others would disbelieve the shortstops' claim that he earned the base runners out and, unrewarded for an honest good job, he may become less motivated to become a better player, make a good play the next time etc.
hmmm...
Seeking the whole truths....
imho
I do not know
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