I've been thinking about this a lot. I think it's a very subtle issue in a few ways--including metarationally, because instant replay in MLB is one of the things I've been wrongest about ever. I thought it'd be great, and it's bad. [1/N]https://twitter.com/briankoppelman/status/1402109560794537987 …
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Part of what's wrong with replay is the structure of the system (and maybe of MLB itself). What is and isn't dependent on the replay booth seems exactly wrong but unlikely to change much. And the whole thing is a bad fan experience (that does prevent some even worse ones). [2/N]
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It's great that replay works well in tennis. I suspect that this has something to do with the narrative structure and history of tennis. I worry MLB is losing its grip on what makes it special (or even *intelligible*). I don't know what automating pitch calls would do here. [3/N]
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I've talked a lot about reply in tennis vs baseball and most of the reason it works great in tennis is that everyone has agreed to go by the projected trajectory shit and not actual replay. Whereas baseball uses actual replay.
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Seems plausible, but I can't shake the thought that it has something to do with the pace and history of tennis and what makes tennis significant and enjoyable. It's a very different sport, obviously.
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totally. I also think its static in/out nature makes it more receptive to things like this than baseball. Fair/Foul calls could be done like that...the strike zone...it's harder.
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And more of the mystique of the game has to do with individual people and rivalries, and game rhythms of many different sorts. Somehow changing the micro-structure of a match seems (in my very very casual perspective) not to hit the core of what the game is *about*.
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