Archive for June, 2010

Kindess is not for wimps

About this time last year, Donald Miller posted this on his blog: The one thing my very conservative friends and my liberal friends have in common is that they are extremely kind. I think kind people are kind and mean people are mean and it hardly matters whether they are conservative or not. It has [...]

Instant Reply, Secret Holds, and Is Twitter Making Us Stupider?

A couple nights back, Armando Galarraga pitched a perfect game in which he got 28 batters out. It’s a well publicized story that I won’t get into except to say that umpire Jim Joyce blew a call and robbed a guy of one of the greatest feats in all of baseball. Nobody’s really that upset [...]

My suggestion for instant replay in baseball

In light of the un-perfect game, here are my suggestions for a Major League Baseball instant replay system. Put a fifth ump in a room with a monitor and a phone or a walkie-talkie or something. He is the review ump. His ruling is final. He stays in that room while play is occurring so [...]