The Little League World Series will expand its replay rules to include including force outs, tags on base paths, missed bases and hit batters this year.
It smacks of overkill.
It takes away the judgment part of the umpires' efforts. In this day and age where we blame everyone for everything, who doesn't mind a poorly founded discussion for a week about an umpire's wrong call?
The other thing that's particularly galling has to do with the umpires themselves. They are volunteers. To subject men and women who do this for the love of the game to this sort of scrutiny is hard to comprehend.
At least ESPN can put its 5,000 replay angles to some use.
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