Baseball Needs More Replays

If you have had the opportunity to see the replay of the fathom foul ball in the Yankee- Twins series then you have to be a proponent of more instant replays in baseball.

Joe Mauer of the Twins hits a line drive down the left field line which tics off the glove of the Yankee left fielder and hits the ground about a foot in fair territory. The umpire who is in left field only ten yards away immediately signals foul ball.

I know that calls are made wrong a lot in life but in most cases they are bang bang could go either way until you use slow motion to review it. This play was never in doubt and slow motion made it even more clearer.

The cynic I am, my first thought was MLB had better check this umps checking account, someone has paid him off. Replay could of course prevent that.

I am very happy for Duke football. Last week they made Virginia Tech work hard for victory. Yesterday they were clearly the best team even when it was 28-28 at N C State.

All of you Carolina folks who were complaining that State only had two wins over FCS teams Gardner Webb, and Murray State a month ago looks like you caught State in wins against the FCS having now beaten Citadel who lost by 36 to Elon yesterday and Georgia Southern.

I think the best thing every Division one team could do is not play a FCS team at all. I would like to remind State and Carolina NC Central is now Division one and just down the street.

I am sorry to have to tell you this but our first night on the web never happened. If you are a person that listens to our radio broadcast on any Friday night you know our quality has not been up to snuff this year.

We hope to try again next week for the web.

Wes Bradshaw is finding out as the executive producer of our radio games that there is more to it than showing up and flinging it.

We also need more support from am 1390 than just taking the money to be on the air. We have had numerous complaints of phones ringing in the back ground while we are on the air. That's the station not with us in the booth.

If you spin the dial every Friday night there are very few high school games on the air any more. The first reason for that is local radio stations no longer are training grounds for people just getting in the business.

The most important reason that is it more costly to produce a live program off site from the radio station than doing programing in the studio with a computer. That basically means they have to charge more to do ball games than they do to air one commercial.

In case you didn't know it, today's disc-jockeys don't have to sit in the studio for four hours and talk at the end of each record any more. Computers can be told when to play a song and when to air the recorded weather without the disc-jockey having to sit there continuously.

We are working hard trying to improve the broadcast quality. Sometimes it hard to tell.