This is my 2nd blog in as many days and this one is about a problem that exists in all sports...Officiating. I will go over the problems with officiating in the 3 major sports and College Football as well as how they can fix it to better the sports, this will be a two part blog with the first part being about the MLB and the NBA and the 2nd part: pro and college football.
MLB: This years playoffs showed us 3 things- how to buy a championship, the greatness of Mariano Rivera (all of the other 7 playoff closers blew at least 1 save), and the need for replay in baseball. From Joe Mauer's double in game 2 of the ALDS to the many blown calls in game 4 of the ALCS including the debacle involving cano and Posada at 3rd base to the two double plays late in Game 2 of the World Series this year's playoffs were filled with blown calls that changed the course of the game, series, and the playoffs. There is one simple solution expanding replay to fair and foul calls and on the bases leave balls and strikes alone. The argument against replay is that it slows the game down and takes the game out of the hands of the umps. This is not valid because your goal is to get the call right no matter what and the time it would take to look at a replay is about the same it takes for a manager to argue a call so baseball adopt replay before you do further damage to your sport.
NBA: The NBA which does have replay needs to expand it slightly to the last 5 seconds of all four quarters. Also the NBA needs to call traveling a lot more and get rid of this new rule which allows 2 steps without a dribble and gives people like Lebron the idea that their "crab dribble" is legal Also they need to follow the NFL and use the rule that if there is no conclusive evidence then a call stands (look at Brad Miller's shot last night)other then that the NBA has good officiating as a whole.
In the upcoming days I will look at NFL and College football officiating.
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Just so you know, with Brad Miller's shot, there was .3 seconds on the clock. It states in the rule book that there must be at least .4 to get a shot off. So that along means that it should have been waived off.
ReplyDeletethat is not what I am talking about I am talking about the fact that it was counted at first but then overturned without any conclusive evidence if that happens in the playoffs there would be a major uproar.
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