It’s Come to This: Hitler Gets Wind of the Imperfect Game

| June 5, 2010 | 2 Replies

You just knew it was only a matter of time before word of Jim Joyce’s blown call reached Hitler’s bunker. Sadly, the video is not embeddable, so you’ll have to click the link to get to it. Your time will not be wasted, though.

Also, if you want another reasonable, but wrong, opinion on instant replay and baseball, read Kim Priestap’s piece on the subject. What I think a lot of replay advocates overlook is that it hasn’t taken subjectivity out of the game. Football games are longer now and subject to just as much controversy, thanks to the blurring of the meaning of “incontrovertible visual evidence”. I can’t tell you how many games I’ve seen where an official overturned a call on the field while at the same time the announcers disagreed with each other, even though all three of them had access to the same replays. That’s not what “incontrovertible” means. And it it happened in football, it will happen in baseball, too.

Besides, Hitler would probably like instant replay and we don’t want to be like Hitler, do we?

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