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No sport is safe from rule changes turning games into a joke

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No sport is safe from rule changes turning games into a joke
Detroit Tigers third baseman Zach McKinstry (39) and an umpire look at the scoreboard for a replay review.
Detroit Tigers third baseman Zach McKinstry (39) and an umpire look at the scoreboard for a replay review in the first inning against the Seattle Mariners during game three of the ALDS round for the 2025 MLB playoffs at Comerica Park. Lon Horwedel-Imagn Images

Once again, modern ideology has obliterated modern reality. The consequences of the rules, many of which are exploited only as loopholes, have made a mockery of their unrealistic intent.

No sport has been left unafflicted by impossible perfect-world intent.

MLB: The “instant replay rule,” installed as a utopian attempt to correct indisputably incorrect calls, has been neither “instant” nor has it turned wrong into right.

You’ve seen enough of it to know that the overwhelming use of replay challenges and wait-a-while final rulings don’t even approach indisputable or irrefutable proof. They’re too often just a second guess at a first guess, unrealistic freeze-frame microscopic “maybes” applied.

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