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	<title>Comments on: Olympic &#8220;Sports&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: cephyn</title>
		<link>http://cephyn.com/2008/08/18/olympic-sports/#comment-2561</link>
		<author>cephyn</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I'm all for the replay. Why? Because it will allow the umps to get the call right. Fair/Foul/HR is not a subjective decision - the ball is either over a line or not. The reason there are miscalled plays is due to the human nature and shortcomings of the umps. 

You can take a gymnastics routine and give it to the judges with frame-by-frame control, rewind, fast foward, zoom, whatever. Hell give them 3D control matrix-style. Guess what? all the scores will still be different. Because it's a subjective judgment whether or not a deduction should be a tenth or two tenths of a point. It's not like baseball at all. 

Baseball is about facts. Gymnastics, its art, and is judged accordingly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m all for the replay. Why? Because it will allow the umps to get the call right. Fair/Foul/HR is not a subjective decision - the ball is either over a line or not. The reason there are miscalled plays is due to the human nature and shortcomings of the umps. </p>
<p>You can take a gymnastics routine and give it to the judges with frame-by-frame control, rewind, fast foward, zoom, whatever. Hell give them 3D control matrix-style. Guess what? all the scores will still be different. Because it&#8217;s a subjective judgment whether or not a deduction should be a tenth or two tenths of a point. It&#8217;s not like baseball at all. </p>
<p>Baseball is about facts. Gymnastics, its art, and is judged accordingly.</p>
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		<title>By: skick</title>
		<link>http://cephyn.com/2008/08/18/olympic-sports/#comment-2559</link>
		<author>skick</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with your complaint about subjective judging or scoring, but I don't think that the absence of strict and fair scoring rules does not make something a sport.

To put it at a level that both you an I understand almost equally...
In baseball, they are talking (again) about instant replay in baseball.  Lets not get into either of our opinion of whether we want that or not, but for some they feel that in some cases if a hit is a homerun or not, it is a subjective decision of the ump.  Umps are trained professionals in the sport, yet, in some cases it is their subjective decision at the time and on the spot that decides whether a ball is a homerun, a double, or still in play.  Some feel that by instituting instant replay the game will be more fair.

Lets say that instant replay (again) is not instituted.  It will not make baseball less of a sport.

Lets say that instant replay is instituted.  Those infamous games where calls were wrongly made will not all of a sudden become obsolete games.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with your complaint about subjective judging or scoring, but I don&#8217;t think that the absence of strict and fair scoring rules does not make something a sport.</p>
<p>To put it at a level that both you an I understand almost equally&#8230;<br />
In baseball, they are talking (again) about instant replay in baseball.  Lets not get into either of our opinion of whether we want that or not, but for some they feel that in some cases if a hit is a homerun or not, it is a subjective decision of the ump.  Umps are trained professionals in the sport, yet, in some cases it is their subjective decision at the time and on the spot that decides whether a ball is a homerun, a double, or still in play.  Some feel that by instituting instant replay the game will be more fair.</p>
<p>Lets say that instant replay (again) is not instituted.  It will not make baseball less of a sport.</p>
<p>Lets say that instant replay is instituted.  Those infamous games where calls were wrongly made will not all of a sudden become obsolete games.</p>
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