Bill Madden of the New York Daily News, seemingly channeling his frustration over never figuring out how to get his VCR to stop flashing “12:00" for the last 30 years.
Of course, the “complicated” replay system he envisions involves managers challenging calls on the field, which is downright footballian in its base crudity.
As I’ve counseled many times before, the way to implement replay is to stick an ump in the booth with a walkie-talkie and allow him to confer with the other umps when obvious mistakes occur, when close calls are argued and the like. Basically, his input would be an extension of an umpires’ on-the-field conference, utilized in exactly the same way.
Would their be hiccups? Sure. But it’s the least intrusive means of implementing instant replay.