{"id":570,"date":"2008-08-26T21:50:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T20:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=570"},"modified":"2009-09-26T12:07:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T11:07:55","slug":"instant-replay-era-begins-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Instant replay era begins on Thursday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote on Sunday about instant replay being on its way, I didn&#8217;t think it would arrive this quickly.<\/p>\n<p>According to John Perrotto on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/unfiltered\/?p=997\" target=\"_blank\">Baseball Prospectus Unfiltered<\/a>, Bud Selig will be holding a press conference at 5.00 pm ET (22.00 BST) to announce that instant replay will be used to determine close calls on home runs starting on Thursday!<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a bit of a rushed job to me.\u00c2\u00a0 It will be interesting to hear what testing they have done during actual in-game situations, because you can&#8217;t bring in something like this with one month left of the regular season without it being thoroughly tested.\u00c2\u00a0 Can you?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT<\/strong>: This news has just been confirmed on MLB.com.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/press_releases\/press_release.jsp?ymd=20080826&amp;content_id=3370520&amp;vkey=pr_mlb&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=mlb\" target=\"_blank\">press statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote on Sunday about instant replay being on its way, I didn&#8217;t think it would arrive this quickly. According to John Perrotto on Baseball Prospectus Unfiltered, Bud Selig will be holding a press conference at 5.00 pm ET (22.00 BST) to announce that instant replay will be used to determine close calls on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[553],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-mlb-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4702,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/4702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}