Mpumalanga remains a largely rural province, and our people are still mainly dependent on agriculture for self-sustenance.” She said: “Agriculture remains the backbone of our economic system both in terms of employment generation as well as provincial and national gross domestic income contribution. Mtsweni shared the outcomes of her meeting with the university leadership, during her State of the Province Address (SOPA). “I say you just keep it the way it is and let the umpires decide what it is and go on about playing the game.The Mpumalanga Premier is looking at partnering with UMP in relation to funding students studying agricultural and mining related courses. “Sometimes you’re going to be on that side where you want a replay and then sometimes you’re going to be on the side where you don’t want a replay,” the Gold Glover said. Los Angeles Dodgers centre-fielder Matt Kemp could be helped - or hurt - by reviews on balls hit his way. “Honestly, if they didn’t have replay at all, that wouldn’t bother me.” “The human element of the game, to me, is one of the best parts about baseball,” he said. “I could see it happening, but I think that if they’re going to keep adding stuff they should do it little by little to kind of see how it goes.”ĭetroit catcher Alex Avila called himself a “purist.” “I don’t think you want to drag the game on too long, so you don’t want to go too overboard with it,” he said. “Not that I’m against it, but I just think that that it seems like that would be a pretty simple, quick thing.” “I think that the fair-foul thing, I’d be more in favour of that than the trap,” San Diego third baseman Chase Headley said. The one thing you don’t want is to have the game last longer and longer because of all these replays and go deep into the night.” “And whatever it takes to do that, I think, that’s what they’re trying to do. “All anybody wants, and that’s the umpires and us, is to make sure we get the call right,” Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said Thursday.
Selig’s special committee for on-field matters, a 14-man panel that includes managers, general managers and team executives, also is said to favour the additional replay for next year. MLB’s contract with the umpires runs through the 2014 season the labour deal with players expires this December.
Players and umpires approved adding replay three years ago. Out-or-safe calls on the bases, like the one that cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game last year, would not be subject to review.
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In the 2009 AL playoffs, Joe Mauer’s looper down the left-field line landed fair by a full foot at Yankee Stadium, hopped into the seats and was mistakenly called a foul ball.
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Last October, Yankees right fielder Greg Golson clearly caught a low liner for the final out of Game 1 in New York’s first-round series against Minnesota, but the umpire ruled the ball bounced. Since then, there have been a spate of missed calls in the playoffs and World Series. The NFL, NBA, NHL and the NCAA had already employed instant replay. “It doesn’t happen that often.”īaseball began using replay late in the 2008 season, though only to check potential home run balls. “Don’t take so long between innings, cut 10 seconds off between every half-inning and that could make up for five minutes for the replay on a trapped ball or something like that,” he said. “I just think they should all be called the right way, and it doesn’t matter if it takes an extra five minutes.”
Major League Baseball is leaning toward expanding replay for the 2012 season to include trapped balls and fair-or-foul rulings down the lines, a person familiar with the talks tells The Associated Press.Ĭommissioner Bud Selig and a group of umpires discussed the extra video review at spring training and were in agreement, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter is still being discussed. Next year, it well could be: Let’s look at the replay! His glove, the ball and the grass all smack together at the same time. NEW YORK - Shane Victorino charges hard from centre field, chasing a sinking line drive.
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