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If by now you are not in favor of Major League Baseball drastically overhauling its instant replay protocols, you are as blind as Jim Joyce was Wednesday night.
Whatever causes such myopia, rest assured it is curable. Us advocates of replay are not trying to tromp on your sacred game. We do not want to slow it down or cause mass hysteria or increase Bud Selig’s agita quotient. Most of us, in fact, are just fine with umpires, and not HAL 9000, calling balls and strikes.
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