What a surprise. The accidental commissioner who has long been the butt of baseball jokes doesn’t get that his sport is at a crossroads when it comes to instituting new technology. At the moment, replay is restricted to questionable fair-or-foul calls on home runs, and it doesn’t appear that’s slated to change soon.

“Our committee” — that would his hand-picked Special Committee for On-Field Matters — “said we need to study it more, maybe have a few more months of study,” Selig said. “But from the numbers that I heard, of the controversial tough plays, they got something like 98 percent right.”

Sounds pretty good, right? Except even with Selig’s crude cocktail-napkin math, that would equate to at least one blown call in every single game. That means a blown call in every September game that has playoff qualification implications. That means a blown call in every potentially historic perfect game that might be thrown. That means a blown call in every World Series game. Sure, that doesn’t sound so significant, but just you wait until the Chicago Cubs are on the cusp of ending their historic championship drought and the blown calls goes against the North Siders.

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Authors: Erik Malinowski

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