Instant Replay A-Coming

It could be coming as soon as next month, for fair/foul and fan interference calls.

Baseball is finally getting with the times! And they are actually improving on the NFL model. According to Verducci, there will be no challenge flags. Managers won't get a say in which ones are reviewed.

One of the stupidest rules in the NFL is that you only get two challenges per half. So, if the refs screw you three times, you can't do anything about it. Idiotic.

Now, let's move on to some other idiotic traditions that should be done away with.

* Managers should wear trousers and team polos, like the NFL. (It's too hot for suits, like the NBA) I'm sick of looking at 60-year-old men pack themselves into baseball uniforms. Gross!

* Sit down and shut up. The NBA has technicals that result in free attempts at shots. The NFL has unsportsmanlike conduct the adds or subtracts yards. Time to give the umps something in between, "Bite my tongue and hope he goes away" or "Yer outta the game!"

Give the umps to power to call technical balks. A manager or player argues too much with a man on first, guess what? He's going to second. Keeping it up? Looky there, he's on third.

If it's the batting team that's arguing, then the ump has the power to add strikes to the count.

* Get rid of obstacle courses in the outfield. The Enron Minute Maid atrocity is a joke. Just wanted to get that in there.