It’s easy to sit in your living room yelling at the TV set: "That ump’s blind! Lay off bad sliders; it’s easy! I coulda hit that! Challenge the call, you fool!" I do that a lot, which is considered especially strange when I am watching "Modern Family" but I can’t help it.
MLB made deciding whether or not to challenge much more difficult this year, cutting the time to 30 seconds before a manager must choose. No longer can the A’s chat up Adam Rhoden until he has seen countless angles and has a level of certainty about whether or not a call is likely to be overturned.