00:00As much as I am a Yankee homer, I watched that Orioles game last night with the Yankees.
00:09I watched it from nine different directions.
00:12How in the world does Major League Baseball have replay, have the ability to challenge a ball or a strike
00:22rather quickly,
00:23and yet not have a camera angle that can tell you if it's a home run or not?
00:30You and I just did World Cup games and could not believe the technology they had with telling me if
00:36a guy was a chin hair over off sides or not or where the ball.
00:41How does Major League Baseball not have a legitimate, clear view and understanding if a ball is a home run,
00:49fair or foul?
00:51Joe, it's great to be with you. It's a good question.
00:53One replay looked like a home run and one replay looked like a foul ball.
00:58You know, it was very strange to me to see two different angles showing two different opinions.
01:05And I think that's what led them to the call stands in that game yesterday.
01:11To take this a little bit further, I would say that your point is fair and it is well taken.
01:17Here's what I know about Major League Baseball.
01:20When things like this happen, they tend to react and fix them.
01:25And so unfortunately, I think for Pete Alonso, maybe or maybe not, because again, I saw two replays, one that
01:34was a home run and one that was a foul ball.
01:37I couldn't tell. I couldn't tell. I also couldn't tell. I believe in that park in particular.
01:44They'll work with it in the offseason. They'll figure out a sight line or they'll figure out a way to
01:49make sure that they know what happens in the future.
01:51But 51% of me thought it was a home run, a slight lean toward a home run.
01:59I will tell you that it was very inconclusive on the replays.
02:03And I hate to say it. And, you know, I know how Pete Alonso felt about it.
02:08By the way, is anybody hotter than Pete Alonso right now? Probably not.
02:13So so I'm going to say that the umps got it wrong, probably.
02:17But because they couldn't tell the letter of the law in that replay says it's inconclusive if it ends up
02:23happening.
02:23So. That's that's where I stand with it.
02:27I don't know if you're happy with that answer, Joe, but that's my answer at 603 on a Thursday.
02:32I just I especially you and I having had to sit through World Cup matches as many as you and
02:40I did over two and a half weeks.
02:42I forgot about that. We did that.
02:44You and I just going, are you kidding me?
02:47How in the world did they know he was offside and then they play this unbelievable laser and and they
02:53replay it like, oh, OK.
02:55And I'm watching this last night and all I could think about, Craig, was how does FIFA have this?
03:02But majorly we can tell just about anything in an NFL game now, right?
03:07That's at least reviewable.
03:09How are we not at the point where the foul poles have some sort of laser or something that can
03:16go ahead and help these guys?
03:17What is the eagle eye in the dugout?
03:20What what exactly is that?
03:22Hawkeye. I think it's called Hawkeye.
03:25Crap Hawkeye.
03:26Yeah, I mean, what is that?
03:27They have they have it there.
03:29They have it in all minor.
03:30The most I take it back.
03:31They have it in most minor league parks.
03:34I think, like, for example, the park.
03:36OK, so here's what's interesting.
03:38So so Hawkeye is responsible for the metrics and all the replays and the data.
03:45And it shows you where everything is.
03:47Ironically, Joe, I was going to say I was going to say it wrong.
03:50Not every park has Hawkeye.
03:53Everyone in Major League Baseball has it.
03:55Yes.
03:55Everyone in Major League Baseball has it.
03:57I believe all of AAA has it.
04:01And I think almost all of AA.
04:03But what's interesting is like Roger Dean has it.
04:06But LECOM and Palm Beach does not.
04:09It's true.
04:11Yeah.
04:11LECOM does not.
04:12I learned that this spring.
04:14This spring they told me that before the spring started that they were like the announcers were a little bummed
04:19out because Hawkeye was not in LECOM Park.
04:22But it was in Roger Dean.
04:23So you miss out on some of those metrics.
04:25You miss out on some of the distances for for home runs.
04:30But but, Joe, all these things I do think get settled to answer your question exactly what the technology is
04:36and how it works.
04:37I don't know.
04:37But it does solve a lot of those issues.
04:40Generally, that happens.
04:41It's why, for example, the announcers like having you thought like how do they know immediately how far the home
04:47run is?
04:48That's what Hawkeye does.
04:49Like, how do you know the second it lands?
04:51438 feet.
04:52What?
04:53Like 20 years ago, we were like, how do you know?
04:54Like, get a tape measure, you know?
04:56But but that's that's part of what it does.
04:59It's a great question, though, by you.
05:00A great question.
05:01But funny, though, the down the street from you, Roger Dean has it.
05:06But the other part does not.
05:07And so some in the minors do and some do not.
05:10But yes, all the major leagues have it.
05:12All of them do.
05:12And I suppose LECOM probably will end up having it next year, too.
05:16They just don't.
05:16They just didn't this past spring.
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