BoerneGator said:
The thing about it is that it was SOOOOO very close that it was easy to miss the call. Thus the need to verify the call with a quick check of the video. The responsible thing to have done was to simply verify that the proper call was made. The crew compounded the mistake, and should be required to suffer some consequences, but we know they will not.
Zero issue with the call on the field. This was a very difficult call for HP and while Jeff appears to be looking right it, easy to see where he felt he didn't have enough to overturn.
The bigger issue for me is just the use of replay in baseball, period. The SEC has had replay for ~10 years now, and I think the original reviewable / non-reviewable rules were largely due to pace of play concerns (well and maybe a little bit of protecting the umps too).
Since then, the pitch clock and other pace of play adjustments have been made and the speed of reviews has generally gotten a lot better (esp. for conference games where it is centralized...). I think they need to reconsider what is reviewable and just get it right, or do away with it altogether (which isn't going to happen).
