It’s time for expanded replay in MLB NOW

The Tampa Bay Rays were the recipient of yet another really bad call by an umpire this season tonight. Now, at the end of the game the ruling at the time did not make a difference in the outcome, but this simply illustrates the problem with the game of baseball as it stands currently. With the score Atlanta 3, Tampa 0, Hank Blalock is on third with 1 out when the Atlanta pitcher serves up a wild pitch. Blalock heads home and is tagged late as the pitcher covers the plate, but is called out. This is just another example of why the game of baseball is flawed. I can’t watch every MLB team on television as I cover 28 NFL teams for various sites around the internet, but just as every other adult male in America, I saw the screw up with umpire James Joyce and Detroit pitcher Armando Galarraga and the non perfect, perfect game. Bud Selig could have made the correct call and overturned Joyce in that game but as usual, he sat on his hands. Selig and Umpires like Joe West who seem to t...